[clue] cmdb's? (seeking advice)

[Quentin Hartman]

So, at a previous gig, we were mandated to have a cmdb system and we tried
to implement it with a wiki, and it worked pretty well. However, what I
ended up doing for the systems I ran was use tripwire to log changes and
use that as my "cmdb". When required, I copy-pasta'd entries from the
tripwire log into the wiki.

In the end, everyone was happy, and I didn't have to deal with tracking
stuff manually. Sounds like this might be a good fit for you.


On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not really a hardware thing that I have in mind.  More a question of
> looking for a way to find a searchable list of system changes that you can
> say refine, so when something breaks.  You can, for example, bring up a
> list of system changes that occurred within, oh say, the last week.   I
> gather most of the CMDBs are pay-per software.  Idoit, and onecmdb for
> example, are FOSS, but so far, problematic at best.   Some of the options
> I've looked at run in windows, few to none run on linux.  At least not
> well.  Looking at itop, not convinced on that one either.  Looks like I'd
> have to get a webserver going to have that running, but I don't see many
> ways around that.  Everything I look at either runs on apache on tomcat.
> Most have some sort of mysql backend.
>
> Mike B
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Matt James <matuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've used the Asset Tracker part of RT before and was reasonably happy
>> with it.  https://www.bestpractical.com/assets/
>>
>> Is that what you're looking for?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone had good experience with cmdb's they're comfortable
>>> recommending?  I'm attempting to evaluate, and so far, just looked at
>>> onecmdb and idoit, but not generally having good experiences.   I need
>>> linux support, and don't necessarily have an infinite amount of time to
>>> hack the thing into working.
>>>
>>> Mike B
>>>
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