Document Guidelines

Our management would like to streamline the documentation of our databases.
Is there a guideline or sample in which I can use as a reference?
I can think of at least following topic:
1. Hardware Configuration - CPU/Memory/Disk/Network
2. Operating System Environment - OS level, patch, system software installed
3. Oracle Environment - version, location, patch level etc, account configuration etc
4. Backup Procedure/Schedule/Policy - both on the database and os level
5. Recovery Procedure - both on the database and os level.
6. Database Performance Monitoring Procedure
7. Application Performance Monitoring
8. Scheduled/regular maintenance task
9. Contact Information
Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

You might separate out the contact information and just have it kept in one place for all IT account info.
Your other list looks pretty good but if you write it someone needs to maintain it. Outdated information can be worse than not having it.
I might try to scrap items 6, 7, and 8. Perhaps having these as separate items since these items are more tasks to be performed rather than documentation of the current environment.
Less is often better.
Size and distribution of your company, plants, departments, and personnel probably are determining factors for if you should create 6, 7, and 8.
Just my 2 cents
-- Mark D Powell --

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