[racktables-users] Re: adding functionality to reserve/set ownership over objects
- From: Denis Ovsienko <infrastation@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:33:34 +0400
17.01.2014, 00:22, "Young, David" <dayoung@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Greetings,
>
> I’m working in a lab environment where we are sharing several racks worth of
> equipment among developers. We currently use a very basic reservation system
> (whiteboard) to keep the developers from stomping on eachother’s work. I’m
> investigating possible solutions for this. Apart from tracking
> reservations/reservation history, we also want to track aspects of our
> servers that racktables does very well- rack slot numbers, moving hardware
> around in racks and rewiring, setting trouble-state that is easily spotted
> at-a-glance. Has anyone tried using racktables to track user reservations of
> objects, or has suggestions on how modifiable the racktables schema and UI
> are if I wanted to implement this myself? Or maybe you have suggestions for
> a different tool that does what I am describing.
>
I would begin with a number of tags ("reserved by John", "reserved by Jim" etc)
and let it work for a month to see if any more refining
is necessary.
--
Denis Ovsienko
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