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> > BTW, what is the purpose of this "Audit"?  It sure doesn't sound like
> > anything I've ever heard called an audit.

> >From http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
>         "2 : a methodical examination and review"

> Just to add to your data, I'm surprised you are surprised that the word
> audit would be used to describe an inventory of a set of computer
> systems.  ;-)

> One can also "audit" a course of education, which has the additional
> semantics of not actually doing it to pass the examination, but mainly
> to review the design of the course for the course designer.

> > > BTW, what is the purpose of this "Audit"?  It sure doesn't sound like
> > > anything I've ever heard called an audit.

> > >From http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
> >         "2 : a methodical examination and review"

> > Just to add to your data, I'm surprised you are surprised that the word
> > audit would be used to describe an inventory of a set of computer
> > systems.  ;-)

> > One can also "audit" a course of education, which has the additional
> > semantics of not actually doing it to pass the examination, but mainly
> > to review the design of the course for the course designer.

> Well said, I was beginning to doubt my choice of the word "Audit" for a
> while. But then again, what I am currently doing is precisely a
> "methodical examination and review". I am documenting the hardware
> components of this VAXcluster, providing configuration management
> information, performance analysis, auditing licenses, analysing lovely
> things like SYSGEN parameters etc. And all of this in this wonderful
> backwater of the world, Port Harcourt, Nigeria :->