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A result of a contract where nobody knows where any of the "critical" code lives, I'm gathering a list of "things" a software shop should track that will be beneficial for code/server organization and onboarding new developers. Trying to get this company
Servers (repeat as many times as needed)
Name:
IP Address(es):
Environment: [Development, Test, User Acceptance, Production]
Role(s): [Web Server, Database, Failover, etc]
Host Names: [If a web site or web services, what url(s) are used to get here]
Server Version: [Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, Red Hat Enterprise, etc]
Installed Software/Version: [Sql Server 2008 R2, .NET {versions}, PHP, JRE, MSMQ, IIS6, IIS7, etc]
Environment Configuration: [Any non “out of the box” configurations for Windows, IIS, SQL, etc]
Code/Projects
Name:
Type: [Web Services, Web Site, Scheduled Task, Console, Android App, iOS App, etc]
Language(s): [C#, JAVA, PHP, SQL, HTML, JS, etc]
Runtime Versions: [.NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Classic ASP, PHP, JAVA, etc]
Internal Dependencies: [any other internal projects this project needs to run]
External Dependencies: [any 3rd party services or binaries that are required for this project to run]
SCM Location: [where is it hosted in github, or other]
Environment(s) – repeat for each environment (dev, test, prod, etc)
Server Name: [should relate back to a server]
Role: [Development, Test, User Acceptance, Production]
Installation Path: [Where is the code installed? E.g. D:\Software\CustomServicePath ]
Database Settings: [Connection string for the databases needed, if any]
Custom Configurations: [What config settings need to be set on the server/environment]
3rd Party Services/Configuration: [Does this consume any 3rd party services, are there any file imports/exports? Describe them here, also, where can a developer get these if they are required to do work relating back to them.]
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dartdog commented Dec 5, 2012

dns host and password
server host and password

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dartdog commented Dec 5, 2012

Db uid and psw

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