inventory / configuration management tools

[Tom Judge]

Dan Langille wrote:
> Are you using a configuration management tool?  If so what?
>
> I don't mean a tool to manage /etc/rc.conf (for example).
>
> What I'm looking for is something to keep track of all the hardware,
> where it's installed, mac addresses, etc.  There has to be some kind
> of API into it so we can plug utilize our existing processes,
>
> We are looking at http://onecmdb.org/ but I'm wondering about other options.
>
>   
In addition to my last response (which I can't reply to because its not 
made it back to me yet).

We also use RackTables (http://www.racktables.org/) for storing data 
such as locations, configurations etc..  There is not really any real 
API for it but the DB is fairly simple to interface with.. 

The code is not exactly clean, but it works.  I have a work in progress 
rewrite that is based on MVC that I can share.  It also has added 
features for managing package installation sets, and jails, and glue 
code to interface the package sets to Tinderboxes for binary builds.. 
Additional glue to hook it into CFEngine to manage jail deployment (via 
ezjail) and package installation.  Let me know if you are interested in 
any of this..

Tom