What it does: extract information from your apache/nginx configuration like sitename and port numbers. And from your buildout-generated bin/zopectl or bin/django to list the packages used.

Reinout van Rees made this script initially for The Health Agency. Quite common-company-server-setup specific. Now it is still a bit company specific as it is in use now at Nelen & Schuurmans, but it at least provides example code and ideas you can borrow.

On every server, a .json is generated and placed somewhere (preferrably a network drive). One server grabs all the .json files and generates an overview html page.

Before you start, you have to symlink the correct buildout configuration:

$ ln -s development.cfg buildout.cfg

This is if you want to develop on serverinfo itself. On the machines where you want to grab information, use grabber.cfg. On the central machine where you want to generate and display the html overview pages from all the servers' info, use displayer.cfg.

• Extract info also from ngnix configurations.
• Italicize (or strikethrough) server lines in the output when there's no apache/nginx config linked to them (=they don't have a servername). Indicates they're not used.
• Perhaps also spit out a quick list of used (gunicorn) port numbers for easy consumption by other scripts.