On 6/6/2011 1:12 PM, Denis Ovsienko wrote:
Folks, I have made a look at both systems (GLPI and OCSNG). The integration task is, of course, doable, but requires at least one developer familiar with internals of both RackTables and one of those applications. Neither me nor Alexey nor Aaron currently have this experience. That said, if someone wants to contribute the code to link the systems, the effort would be welcomed. Integrating with RackTables (at least with some parts of it) is no rocket science, and we can advise on that. Excuse me, but that's all we can offer at this time.
The OCSNG server can be configured to drop a copy of each inventory report sent (typically once per day) from each host in XML format in a server-side directory which could mostly divorce the ocs internals from the problem except that there is no location/rack data unless you add them as 'adminfo' custom fields. Is there a generic way to import/update items assuming you can get the data and map the field names from somewhere else? I've seen an api mentioned, but I'm not very good with php and haven't found examples or documentation I could follow. I could probably manage something in perl, hooking dbi to both databases but that seems pretty fragile in terms of possible future schema changes in either system. In that kind of scenario, can racktables deal with objects that don't have a parent yet (i.e. a new host reports its hardware inventory before someone assigns the location/rack/position), and what sort of sanity checking would be needed on the interface/subnet details to ensure that the actual settings reported by the agent fit into the networks as defined?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
