How to Create System Configuration Summaries for CentOS 5.5 using cfg2html

In this tutorial i will show you how to collect and create the system configuration summaries for Linux CentOS 5.5. The output file will be in the HTML format.

1. Please visit http://www.cfg2html.com to download cfg2html

For example :
26.01.2011 | 428.603 | cfg2html-linux-1.87-20110126_all.zip | cfg2html for Linux, SuSE+RedHat RPM, native Debian/Ubuntu package for apt(itude)/dpkg, \nSource Code for other distros

2. Extract the .zip and looking for .rpm file. Copy this .rpm to /tmp directory on your server. In this tutorial we will use cfg2html-linux-1.87-1.noarch.rpm to install cfg2html in Linux CentOS 5.5

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3. Putty to your server and follow below command.

    [root@server tmp]# ls
    cfg2html-linux-1.87-1.noarch.rpm
    [root@server tmp]# rpm -hiv cfg2html-linux-1.87-1.noarch.rpm
    Preparing...             ########################################### [100%]
    1:cfg2html-linux         ########################################### [100%]
    
    [root@server tmp]# which cfg2html-linux
    /usr/bin/cfg2html-linux
    [root@server tmp]# cd /usr/bin
    [root@server bin]# ls *cfg2html-linux*
    cfg2html-linux
    [root@server bin]# mkdir /tmp/cfg2html
    [root@server bin]# cp cfg2html-linux /tmp/cfg2html
    [root@server bin]# cd  /tmp/cfg2html
    [root@server cfg2html]# ls
    cfg2html-linux
    

Please make sure that there are no other files in “/tmp/cfg2html” directory except cfg2html-linux as all the output files will be store in this directory. Proceed to run the cfg2html script.

    [root@server cfg2html]# ./cfg2html-linux
    
    --=[ http://come.to/cfg2html ]=-----------------------------------------------
    Starting          cfg2html-linux version 1.87-2011-01-26
    Path to Cfg2Html  ./cfg2html-linux
    HTML Output File  ./server.intranet.local.html
    Text Output File  ./server.intranet.local.txt
    Partitions        ./server.intranet.local.partitions.save
    Errors logged to  ./server.intranet.local.err
    Started at        2011-02-28 21:22:53
    WARNING           USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! :-))
    
    --=[ http://come.to/cfg2html ]=-----------------------------------------------
    
    Collecting:  Linux System CentOS release 5.5 (Final)  ............................
    Collecting:  Cron and At  .........
    Collecting:  Hardware  ....................
    Collecting:  Software  .......
    Collecting:  Filesystems, Dump- and Swapconfiguration  ...........
    Collecting:  Multipath Configuration  ........
    Collecting:  LVM  ........
    Collecting:  Network Settings  ................................
    Collecting:  Kernel, Modules and Libraries  ................
    Collecting:  System Enhancements  ..
    Collecting:  Applications and Subsystems  ...........
    
    --=[ http://come.to/cfg2html ]=-----------------------------------------------
    Creating:    JPG/GIFs
    x - cfg2html_back.jpg [non-ascii]
    x - profbull.gif [non-ascii]
    
    [root@server cfg2html]# ls
    cfg2html_back.jpg       server.intranet.local.html             profbull.gif
    cfg2html-linux          server.intranet.local.partitions.save
    server.intranet.local.err  server.intranet.local.txt
    

Make a copy of this cfg2html folder on your local pc. You can view the system configuration by run the server.intranet.local.html.

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