[EdLUG] Advice on Linux migration task

[Geetam]

You may want to try cfg2html
https://cfg2html.com

Originally written for HPUX but converted for many flavours of Unix and Linux.

Not sure if it is still actively developed.

Regards
Geetam
(Happily retired sysadmin 😇 )


On 19 July 2021 18:02:30 Tahir Hafiz <tahir.hafiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've started a new remote role in an academic institution.
> But the first task seems to be to migrate around 40 Linux servers (a couple 
> of them seem to be Solaris, the rest Ubuntu) each running different bespoke 
> applications for various academic purposes from one organisation to another 
> organisation within the next 10 weeks or so.
>
> The problem is that there is scant documentation as to what these Linux 
> servers do and the purpose of the applications running on each one, how 
> they were set-up (individually it seems by various academics over the years 
> who have since left), and the majority of servers are on AWS, some on 
> Google Cloud and a few on OpenStack. The Project Manager is looking at the 
> purposes of the servers to be migrated from a business point of view.
>
> The current Linux sysadmin has been doing the job of three people 
> maintaining all these systems, he has not documented anything all these 
> years and is leaving in 4 days.
> What kind of good questions should I ask him before he leaves? He is the 
> only one that knows how everything works.
>
> Is there any good inventory software for Linux that will tell you what 
> services, ports being listened on, active applications running? What are 
> the best ways to figure out what a server does?
> I think as time is so short I need to find a way to lift and shift a server 
> from one organisation to another - any advice on how to do this, e.g. AWS 
> and GCP or OpenStack that can "lift and shift" a server from one 
> organisation's cloud to another?
>
> Cheers,
> Tahir
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