Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:30:23 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Dan Langille <dlangille@myyearbook.com> Subject: Re: inventory / configuration management tools Message-ID: <49E4BA1F.8090900@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49E4AD01.2060702@tomjudge.com> References: <6dd019370904140548n783825f6ub53c205dfd152689@mail.gmail.com> <49E4AD01.2060702@tomjudge.com>
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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"
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