Hello,
everytime i build a documentation in i-doit i go on with the logical steps as in real live when i start to create new it-infrastructure. But that's just my way to start documentation ... like "go with the flow".
First at all: Coffee, cookies and brainstorming what kind of documentation, what granulation, which goal should be achieved?
That's soooo important to know.
Create ...
Locations, Buildings, ... Floors (Level1, Level2, ...), Rooms LAN-Ports in Rooms LAN-Racks, Server-Racks, Patchfields, Power, ... LAN-Equipment (UPS, Switches, Router, ...) ** Server, Storages, build Cluster ... (and connect them to xxx) ** Clients like PCs, NoteBooks, Smartphones, ... (and connect them to xxx) ** Printer, Scanner, conference-sysstems, .... (and connect them to xxx) ** User Software ** Services, contracts, licences, contacts, ... Other equipment like user defined things or non-IT things uuh did i documentated the documentation-steps in wiki? starting finework like user roles, add more and more contacts and manuals for trouble-shooting-situations, ...From point 8 on ... it's jumping around.
Between every step i look back and check out: am i on the right way? Is it important? Good to know or involves it a lot of work and nothing else?
** All components with an ip-address are automatically created by discovery-tools like JDisc (Clients, Server, Switches, ...).
Greets Stefan