[dc-ops] Inventory management packages

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:13:57AM -0700, Tait Clarridge wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 19:48 -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > Does anyone have anything good (web-based, of course) for managing
> > servers in slots, IP addresses, names, cabling... that sort of
> > thing?
> > 
> > I'm either being careful or optimistic.  I'm hoping for 'careful'.
> > 
> > Cheers, -- jra
> 
> I've been playing around with RackMonkey (http://www.rackmonkey.org)
> and it isn't too bad for visualizing hardware in the rack space you
> might have. Unfortunately it seems development has stopped but at
> least the framework is there if you have a developer include the rest
> of the things you might require.
> 
> Not the best solution, but it fulfilled the needs for our upcoming
> migration and optimization of rackspace. Their roadmap looks very
> promising but unfortunately it looks like that stuff won't happen
> unless someone continues development.
> 
> I'd be open to a discussion on all the features we would need added
> to rackmonkey or created if a new system was fully defined.
> 
> -Tait

Wow, had never run across that one before.  Too bad development
stagnated.

Anyone aware of _commercial_ products that do this sort of thing?

Ray