[racktables-users] Re: Integration with GLPI
- From: Loïs Taulelle <gruiick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 08:40:30 +0200
2011/6/6 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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?
Hi,
maybe something like the yaml_import.php or facter.php "import plugins"
(see in contribs
http://racktables.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/racktables/contribs )
as a basis?
Regards, Loïs
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