----- "Jeff Leggett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I would be interested in this as well. We posited that Puppet > and facter could make a nice foundation for a CMDB, but you need more > data. It wouldn't be as feature complete as, say BMC's Atrium > product, but in most cases you don't need that... But what you do > need > is the information kept up to date. We use Remedy today to log rack, > row, shelf in our DC's for when resources are installed... BUt we > have > found that it is RAPIDLY out of date as things move, new racks are > added, etc. > > While I don't agree with all of it as being necessary check out the > ITIL v3 CMDB definition for a pretty complete definition. I agree and what I'm looking at is a practical meeting of what I need to know about my systems and indeed what I do know about my systems and what the upper pay grades want (i.e. an ITIL CMDB). I'll likely end up drafting a proposal of the solution and what it might look like and work on the interconnects in an open source, collaborative fashion. -- Digant C Kasundra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---