I have added a Wiki and have begun adding simple Linux and Networking Tutorials.  These tutorials I use often and have put them here for our use.   I am in the process of teaching myself Chef and will put my Notes and Research here as I move along.  

  Please feel free to request other how'to's and I'll try to create the shortest and most straight forward how'to's I can.  Some of these tutorials are very basic and can be found on the web, but aren't always accurate and up-to-date.  

  I've added a Menu Item and the Wiki can be found here: http://wiki.sysadminpunk.com

    It’s been a little while since my last post!  The months have gone by super fast,  at work we've accomplished some great things and we haven’t had much alerts coming from the monitoring box.  There is so much to do in the I.T. department here, it seemed like we'd never be done with the things we wanted to get accomplished.  The last couple of months, I realize we are really picking up the pace and these goals seem more feasible at this point.  Our I.T. Manager has introduced daily stand-up meetings which have helped create communication between I.T. personnel.  We are now using many of the tools I setup for my personal use when I started, for managing and organizing tasks.  Here are a couple of my favorite free Open Source Sysadmin Tools:

ELOG   

  I love ELOG!  Basically it's a Web based Logbook written in Perl.  It's completely customizable with a  single configuration file.  For example I have logbooks for each of our co-location facilities organized by City.  I then have simple categories and tags to organize the log entries.  Each log entry is stored as a simple text file, no database used so archiving is simple.    

   Every one of our techs now uses this tool for most of the changes they make while not at work or while responding to Alerts.     It's already proved to be an indispensable tool to everyone in the company including the developers because they can check to see what updates/patches we have applied to certain machines and their respected times.  

More Info: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/