[wplug] documenting network layout

[John Harrold]

The subject may be incorrect since I'm not really sure what I'm looking
for. This is the situation. I'm a grad student in a theoretical research
group, and I've responsible for managing our computers. At some point in
the near future I'm going to graduate. I've been slowly teaching someone
the ropes to prepare for when I leave. Our network isn't complicated by
most standards, but for someone who is a novice sysadmin I imagine it could
be confusing --- especially since it was setup by a novice sysadmin. 

So I want to find some way to document the network layout: which services
are running on which computer, the location of backups and which scripts
control them, where software exported to the workstations is installed,
etc. I started to type something up in LaTeX; outlining what I thought
would be important, organizing information in a what I felt would be a
logical fashion, and at some point I thought to myself: "surely someone has
done this in the past and developed some standard for this".

So has anyone ever been in this position? Can anyone offer any advice about
how to go about documenting this?

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