[clue] cmdb's? (seeking advice)

[Quentin Hartman]

Getting money to oss projects is frequently a challenge in organizations
that don't have a way to handle donations. I've successfully gotten it done
in the past by presenting the cost of a legitimately comparable proprietary
solution alongside the oss solution with a "consulting / customization"
line item that represents somewhere between 10 and 50 percent of the cost
of the proprietary one. With all the other lines being zero, it ends up
being perceived as a bargain, and the cost falls into a category that
accounting knows how to deal with.

QH

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:59 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
wrote:

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>
> 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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