[clue] cmdb's? (seeking advice)

Charles Burton charles.d.burton at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 14:02:21 MST 2015


Additionally, if you're interested in going that route I'm willing to give
you advice here and there if you need it.  Sometime after I'm doing
rewiring my house I'm planning on putting together a talk about that very
system to give to Clue.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Charles Burton <charles.d.burton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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