[clue] cmdb's? (seeking advice)

[David L. Willson]

Please pardon my political opportunism, but I'm going to throw in a very short sermon here. Feel free to delete now if you've heard enough of my crap. 

This is a reminder to all of us, me included. It is easy to become a leech and never notice a problem until your favorite project goes dormant because the folks working on it had to "get real jobs". 

If free software gives you value, give something back. Words are good, and gifts are great. "Free" is a lot easier to do if the gifts come back, because folks that have something to give back, do. So, please give something to Wikipedia, the Free Software Foundation, the Linux Foundation, the Samba project, or whatever is of value to you. *Show* your gratitude with words and gifts you can afford. 

And, encourage your friends and employers to do likewise. 

-- 
David L. Willson 
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This is a good time for a r3VOLution. 

----- Original Message -----

> Good thought, but I don't really have a project budget/money to spend
> on licenses, I don't think tripwire is FOSS is it?

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Quentin Hartman < qhartman at gmail.com
> > wrote:

> > 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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