From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 14 16:30:29 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 AC6E81065670 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:30:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 953C68FC0A for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n3EGW1fX051544 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:32:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <49E4BA1F.8090900@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:30:23 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Judge References: <6dd019370904140548n783825f6ub53c205dfd152689@mail.gmail.com> <49E4AD01.2060702@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <49E4AD01.2060702@tomjudge.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Dan Langille 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, 14 Apr 2009 16:30:30 -0000 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"