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Re: [otrs] OTRS + OCS

Denis Jedig
Tue, 13 May 2008 08:04:02 -0700

On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:45:24 +0800 syareefdol wrote:

> 1)       Before OTRS system use for our company, I'm using OCS-ng which is
> open source for our inventory and tracking system of equipment. Here the
> trick; how can I extract all data inside OCS-ng and push it to all in
> OTRS/ITSM system?? I've been thinking this lately but serious no idea for
> this moment. It would be great if this can be done which using OTRS system
> as our core system in company.

This is a question belonging into the "developer" mailing list. 

We have spent some resources on a similar project, where we decided against
using the OCS DB as the direct data provider. We used the GLPI database
instead which is much richer, provides comprehensive data access and allows
for additional (e.g. accounting) data to be stored with the configuration
items.

Unfortunately, OTRS::ITSM uses embedded complex perl-style data strucrures
(blasphemically called XML by the developer) within single database fields
in an absolutely braindead way and in violation of all guidelines of good
database design. This means that a simple transformation of view will not
do the trick, so we are using a Perl script to do a quick & dirty one-way
import of some skeleton parameters of a CI and provide a link to the GLPI
web page of the CI in the "description" field of the ConfigItem. Works for
us, but is far from being pretty.

-- 
Denis Jedig
syneticon networks GbR             http://syneticon.net/service/

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