[Casper] internal documentation

[Nichols, Jared]

Apple's Leopard Server wiki is really really nice.


On 6/5/09 15:09 , "Jeff Johnson" <jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us> wrote:

Setting up a wiki for doing this is a great idea...now if I can only find
time to do that! ;-)

Jeff Johnson
Technology Coordinator
Glendale-River Hills School District
Glendale, WI 53209
jeff.johnson at glendale.k12.wi.us

"Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> on June 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM -0500 wrote:
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>This has come up in discussion lately and well I have had this
>conversation before.  How do you all document what you do with Casper and
>your OS X Servers, images, client configurations etc?
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>I have a lot of bad habits when it comes to being a Sys Admin.  I openly
>admit that.  For example if permissions are botched on a package, instead
>of me recreating the package (which is the proper way) I will just write
>a one or two line script that fixes the problem and then attach it to a
>Casper policy.   Thanks to the divine wisdoms of the Jamf software crew
>at the CCA training last summer I no longer do that.  Mainly it is so the
>next guy/gal who comes in to work at my current place of work isn't lost
>with tons of different things I do.  I am the type of person that will
>script out everything in a shell script if I can.
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>So, when you all build packages a certain way do you document it for your
>co-workers?  Do you have a wiki?  Do you take screen shots?
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>I know this isn't really about Casper, but more of a question do you
>document your work with Casper.
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>If you want to take this conversation off list feel free and you can
>email me directly.
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>I would like to sometime implement a wiki for internal use where I can
>document how I do stuff so if I ever go on vacation, leave, or whatever
>the people I work with aren't left in the dark.  Plus it gives me
>something to do, and I do kind of enjoy writing.
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>Thanks
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>Tom
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Jared F. Nichols
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