Hi there, I have been asked to write a script that gathers enough information on our Sun Solaris machines to be able to rebuild and configure them if they should go pop.

My question is does anybody have any suggestions on the files that I need to take a copy of, to ensure that everything is covered, so far I have the following

df -k
netstat -rn
ifconfig -a
/etc/vfstab
/etc/dfstab
/etc/system


what else would i need?

any help would be greatly appreciated

If you have local accounts: /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow

/etc/group
If you use DNS - /etc/resolv.conf (if it's a DNS server, there are more files but it matters how the server was set up on their location)

/etc/inittab
/etc/services
Output from eeprom
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny, /etc/hosts.equiv
If using DiskSuite (SUN's disk product SUNWmd)
/etc/opt/SUNWmd/ md.cf, md.tab, mddb.cf
If using Vertias volume manager
output from vxprint, vxprint -th, vxdisk list
If running Oracle or Sybase
/var/opt/oracle/oratab /opt/sybase/interfaces

Could be more but that's all I can think of/find at this time.

Maybe you could use this one! I find it great for making documentation regarding OS cofigurations.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/cfg2html/

/peter

I also liek to make a file with the output from format for the disk layout.

they is no need to write script, simple download and install Sun Explorer data Collector from http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show...lorer/explorer

the Explorer wiil take all image of your system include disk layout, memory and third party software install.
which you could you to build your system in case it pop.