Re: inventory / configuration management tools

On 14/4/09 16:34, Tom Judge wrote:
> Dan Langille wrote:
>> Are you using a configuration management tool?  If so what?
>>
>> I don't mean a tool to manage /etc/rc.conf (for example).
>>
>> What I'm looking for is something to keep track of all the hardware,
>> where it's installed, mac addresses, etc.  There has to be some kind
>> of API into it so we can plug utilize our existing processes,
>>
>> We are looking at http://onecmdb.org/ but I'm wondering about other
>> options.
>>
>>   
> In addition to my last response (which I can't reply to because its
> not made it back to me yet).
>
> We also use RackTables (http://www.racktables.org/) for storing data
> such as locations, configurations etc..  There is not really any real
> API for it but the DB is fairly simple to interface with..
> The code is not exactly clean, but it works.  I have a work in
> progress rewrite that is based on MVC that I can share.  It also has
> added features for managing package installation sets, and jails, and
> glue code to interface the package sets to Tinderboxes for binary
> builds.. Additional glue to hook it into CFEngine to manage jail
> deployment (via ezjail) and package installation.  Let me know if you
> are interested in any of this..
>
> Tom
>
was going to suggest looking at http://flux.org.uk/projects/rackmonkey
but racktables looks more fully featured.

Vince
>
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