ACD
What is ACD?
ACD stands for Automated Configuration Documentation. ACD is a
program that can be used to gather hardware and software information
about your installed systems. It is geared toward system administrators
who manage a large base of heterogeneous systems.
What systems does it run on?
Currently at least
minimal clients exist for Solaris 2.7, 2.8, Redhat Linux, and HP-UX. Due to the
architecture of ACD, clients can be written for any architecture that you can
build Perl on. The server requires Perl, a database, and an http server that
supports CGI.
release date?
I am hoping to have a very pre-alpha release sometime in late May. If you can't
wait, well, there is always anonymous CVS. If you'd like to work on ACD, e-mail
me and we can talk.
anything else?
right now we're working pretty hard on ACD, so this page, as well as most of the
documentation is pretty incomplete. We'll be working on improving it all in the
very near future. I know this all sounds very much like vaporware, but it
really isn't. ACD is currently running in two different installations, however
the code isn't at all pretty right now, and the documentation is non-existent.
Once the user interface is stable and sufficient documentation is written, we
will put out an ACD release. Until then, try it out from CVS.