Reference by ticket #7628 added by dzahn

On Fri Jun 06 23:12:41 2014, dzahn wrote:

evaluate alternatives to racktables ?

here are the ones listed that have also a free license

http://alternativeto.net/software/racktables/?license=free

RackMonkey

RackSmith

OpenNetAdmin

Opendcim

DCIM

ITDB

Before we discuss "alternatives to racktables" we should understand exactly why
we think racktables is not ok, and what do we need from an inventory system.

Status changed from 'new' to 'open' by RT_System

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DataCenter
"DataCenter is an extension for data center planning and asset tracking...
basically, for keeping track of all our servers. Hey, you try keeping a few
hundred boxes straight in your head!"
"
This is primarily intended for Wikimedia's internal use, but of course others
may find it useful as well."
11:38 < Reedy> MediaWiki extension!

On Mon Jun 09 07:45:09 2014, glavagetto wrote:

Before we discuss "alternatives to racktables" we should understand
exactly why
we think racktables is not ok, and what do we need from an inventory
system.

11:48 < RobH> racktables sucks and isnt real inventory mgmt

< chasemp> if I were making it for me, it would be editable via text editor and
would be tracked in git
..
11:50 < chasemp> if the ppl who have to edit were partial to text editing, or
even a simple cli driven interface we could whip up a structured data => UI
layout I would think
11:54 < mutante> if you combine the "wiki extension" and the "structured data"
approach.. don't you get Wikidata?
11:54 < mutante> could imagine every server being a Q
..
12:05 < Coren> mutante: You know, that actually makes a lot of sense.
12:05 < Coren> With the Q doubling as asset tag. :-)

On 10/06/14 21:57, Daniel Zahn via RT wrote:

<URL: https://rt.wikimedia.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7644 >

On Mon Jun 09 07:45:09 2014, glavagetto wrote:

Before we discuss "alternatives to racktables" we should
understand exactly why we think racktables is not ok, and what do
we need from an inventory system.

11:48 < RobH> racktables sucks and isnt real inventory mgmt

Ok, I'd like to see a list of "must-have" features before we evaluate
anything. That means a list of features an inventory mgmt (a real one,
say) should have and racktables is lacking.
And about the wiki extension, "if your only tool is a hammer..."
--
Giuseppe Lavagetto
Wikimedia Foundation - TechOps Team

This is an effort I made for a list of features. It is relatively
crude and biased so add/reorder
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/invmgmt
I have btw done this exercise before. We did not even have the
opensource/free requirement and yet we could not find a decent
software. We reviewed quite a few (I already have seen some of these
tools and have an opinion) before deciding that it might be better to
do it in-house.
And can we please add servermon into that list as well ?
https://github.com/servermon/servermon
I know I am the upstream and I am biased towards it but it should be
there as well.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Giuseppe Lavagetto via RT
<core-ops at rt>

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Giuseppe Lavagetto
Wikimedia Foundation - TechOps Team

--
Alexandros Kosiaris <akosiaris at wikimedia>

AdminCc jeremyb added by jeremyb

This looks interesting:
https://tumblr.github.io/collins/

I think by now it's clear this is going to be servermon. Do we still want it open? (the migration from racktables to servermon is a separate task anyways)

I'll assume the existence of https://netbox.wikimedia.org/login/?next=/ means that evaluation has been done elswhere and this ticket from 2014 was declined.