[clue] cmdb's? (seeking advice)

Thu Dec 3 16:41:55 MST 2015

As a follow-up to this, I'm going to probably give this up.  I did manage
to successfully map one of our test networks in onecmdb, but from the look
of things onecmdb has been dead as a FOSS project for years and isn't the
simplest thing to work with if you're not a full time CM. Somebody
somewhere in this mailing list said to me that in order for it to be
worthwhile to introduce one new thing it should replace 2 old things, and I
tend to sympathize with the sentiment.

Mike B

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>> 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.
>>
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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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