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Operational and Organizational Security: Policies and Disaster Recovery• Chapter 12 725

Information on configurations should be as thorough as possible. For example,
when documenting the configuration of servers, administrators should include such
aspects as:

■ Processor
■ Motherboard
■ System basic input output service (BIOS)

■ Components installed or attached to the server, including the parameters
used to configure the server to work with them

■ Asset tags and serial numbers

■ Software installed on the machine, and the parameters used in their con-
figuration

■ Protocol information
■ Administrative passwords used in the recovery

Such information can be stored with information detailing the network as a
whole, with additional information providing detailed specifics of individual com-
ponents.

EXERCISE 12.03

CREATING AN INVENTORY OF A WINDOWS XP MACHINE

In this exercise, you will export an inventory of components installed on
a machine running Windows XP. The Systems Information tool collects
information about a system configuration, and can export it to a text
file that can then be incorporated into System Architecture documenta-
tion.

1. Click Windows Start | Run.
2. When the Run dialog box opens, type msinfo32.exe in the Open
field and click the OK button.
3. While any folder under System Information can be exported, for
the purposes of this exercise you will save the System Summary
to a text file. Select System Summary from the left pane of the
console, and right-click on it. From the context menu that
appears, select Save as Text File.

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