From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 21 20:00:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355CF106566C for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:00:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dlangille@myyearbook.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2798FC08 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dlangille@myyearbook.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so991968qwe.7 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:00:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.46.8 with SMTP id h8mr8323925qaf.181.1240344055397; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:00:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6dd019370904140813t6f567903x42a35d56eef03f31@mail.gmail.com> References: <6dd019370904140548n783825f6ub53c205dfd152689@mail.gmail.com> <1239718230.2192.19.camel@mp.virtual-earth.de> <6dd019370904140813t6f567903x42a35d56eef03f31@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:00:55 -0400 Message-ID: <6dd019370904211300l2ca8bfecw5bf8a7b628556a23@mail.gmail.com> From: Dan Langille To: Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inventory / configuration management tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:00:56 -0000 On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Dan Langille w= rote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Mathias Picker > wrote: >> For configuration I'm using puppet and looking into controltier, I have >> not yet found a real use for inventory. > > Our goal: buy a new box, rack it. =A0It starts up, boots, and configures = itself. > We do nothing. Offlist, someone said I was dreaming. He thought I looking for an app to do all this. We don't expect to find an app to do that. What we expect to find is an app that can inventory. :) Map ports. etc. The 'boot and forget' part is something we'd build, and hook it into the inventory system. --=20 Dan Langille myYearbook.com