==> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:45:11 -0400, Richard Rhodes <rrhodes AT 
FIRSTENERGYCORP DOT COM> said:


> If there was one thing I really wish in all this was a comments field.  The
> only place we found to put comments about a node is in the contacts field.
> I wish there was another field where we could enter comments.

AMEN, brother.  Preach it!

> I am interested in how others handle this also.

Heh, I've been thinking about a white paper on just the topic:  "What they
left out, and what I did about it". I may just write it.

The short version is: I built an XML 'application' (dialect) to hold a bunch
of data about my servers, schedules, domains, storage pools and nodes.  I
generate all of my automation scripts by distilling that one big (dang, it's
50K now) file, and get out of it all the normal maintainance scripts and
schedules for my 10 servers, chargeback accounting, and trending data.

Oh, and my automatically-generated DR-restore-my-TSM-server shell scripts. :)

Most of my needs could have been filled with a ~1K "comments" field on:

nodes
domains
filespaces
stgpools



- Allen S. Rout