Is there any good software available that audits a fresh installed Linux system and reports what packages are installed, how it was partitioned and what services /users/etc are configured?

I seek some kind of report that can be handed out to the user or can be used for internal documentation when you setup a new server.

Not sure about software to scan an already set up server. However, a standard Debian install generates an install log under;

This normally includes hardware, packages, errors, etc.

With a bit of grep and sed you could generate a script to summarise it to your needs.

for a .rpm system, rpm -qa will generate a list of everything installed. Try it and I'm sure you will decide its not what you want...

You might also like to look at ps -ef to give you a list of what is running. It still won't quite be what you want, although you could bundle the two up to make a quite useful bit of documentation.

By implication df tells you a lot about disk sizes, but it doesn't tell you how the partitions are set up, just their sizes.

You also try du which will give you the various things that are in place and the amount of space that they use - my sense is that this will give you more detail and be more difficult to interpret than you would like.

If you really want to be thorough, you would probably want to keep a copy of the config files for each significant server app.

Had you been using SuSE, there is a decent hardware report as well, but doesn't look as if you are.

Two things minimally to run before handing it over IMHO:

0. ServDoc
Written in Perl, no install necessary.
Provides general inventory listing.
Old but works perfectly still, output to HTML possible.
* D/L last nightly build.

1. GNU Tiger
Shell script with binary helper applications.
No install necessary if you build off-site but should be a Good Thing to install anyway.
Provides general security audit (just in case you missed tweaking something).
Output to HTML possible.
* Don't forget to enable verbose explanations.

Of course there could be more reporting to run to show the system left your hands in perfect condition like 'yum check-update', Logwatch, LSAT and Rootkit Hunter but that depends on what your handover specs are.

I'm afraid that a script will be the only solution. But I thought that there are already basic tools available that post the system's cpu and memory, enabled services and so on...

i dont know about installation report software but i m using webmin for administrating server and this is quite good and easy to configuration and it have a easy facility for viewing installed softwares and running process. try for searching webmin packages for ur linux .

Thank you all, especially unSpawn! I have missed your last post. I know that you won't be able to put all information about the systems configuration in such an audit, but the tools look promising for handover documentation. Thanks a lot!

NP. Good you saw it.