[racktables-users] Re: Betr.: RackTables + Nagios + Bacula

Joep Ingen, van wrote:

Hi Frank,

Thanks for sharing these scripts with us.
At my company we also use Nagios and HP OpenView ServiceDesk for our
main ITIL processes (incident/problem/change/project mangement, but als
our CMDB). In adition of hooking up Nagios I'm thinkering about a link
with our CMDB.
With tags I can assosiate the object with a location code,also
synchronising the serial numbers, and other usefull info can ben done.
Much work to do, but I believe it is feasible.

I'll give an update when there is more than just the idea :-)
We have done some integrations from our HP SD 5 to racktables, but it's not ready to be published. However, if anyone starts a project for it we'd be happy to donate some code / queries / ideas. 

What we have in place is this:
* Mapping racks from ServiceDesk to RackTables based on Configuration Item name. * Population and changes to servers in SD is reflected to RackTables with a scheduled task. * We've also modified RackTables to allow a separate 'view' for planned space allocations (ref image: http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=racktablescz5.png ). Red space is allocated based on status in the Configuration Item but not yet physically placed in the rack. We currently have 68 racks with several internal departments allocating space, so it was crucial for our planning to see what was already planned to use. We could of course have used the normal color but this makes it easy to see what's already there and what's coming. 

Probably some more stuff that I can't remember right now.

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Erik

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