[racktables-users] Re: RESTful API for RackTables
- From: Philip Durbin <philipdurbin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:47:35 -0400
On 06/01/2012 12:40 PM, Alexey Andriyanov wrote:
You must write an exporter/importer in some language, right?
Why don't you choose the least painful option, and then be as
language-agnostic as you want while using the resulting export/import API?
Alexey is correct. The "right" way to write a RESTful API for
RackTables is write it in PHP using this guide:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/racktables/index.php?title=RackTablesDevelGuide#API
I was mostly linking to
http://blog.mattynick.com/blog/2012/05/31/getting-racktables-location-info-into-puppet/
just to demonstrate a quick and dirty way to get data out of RackTables
and into a language-agnostic format (YAML) with a Ruby script. Yes, it
queries the database directly. Yes, the database schema could change.
Yes, you're committing to maintaining your own code to provide this API
for yourself. It's a proof of concept. . . an example of the kind of
data RackTables users are interested in. "Please show me the data
center, row, rack, and rack unit(s) for this server."
01.06.2012 20:08, Les Mikesell написал:
I'm confused. How is the right solution to being language-agnostic to
use PHP? And I need an importer as much as an exporter.
Yes, while one is at it, writing away in PHP, coding up a way to POST
data to the API (an "importer") would be great to have as well. It's a
simple matter of programming. :)
nVentory has a RESTful API, but in my opinion nVentory is not as good at
RackTables at helping you visualize your data centers:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nventory/wiki/RestAPI
There's also this Racks/Bays Management Plugin for GLPI:
http://plugins.glpi-project.org/spip.php?article8 . I've barely even
looked at GLPI.
Phil
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