[clue] cmdb's? (seeking advice)

[Charles Burton]

You could try SaltStack and feed the data into Foreman.  The FACTS system
keeps track of each host and a bunch of information about it, you can add
additional fields pretty trivially.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a "version" that is still open source, but I don't know how
> featureful it is. tripwire.org . There is also a fork of the old
> opensource tripwire that I believe has blossomed into it's own thing, but
> the name escapes me at the moment. I seem to recall it was some inscrutable
> acronym. I've never used either as my application of it was in halcyon days
> of OSS Tripwire, and since then I've not had a pressing need for it.
>
> Q
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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