phpipam isnt developed anymore I have an idle racktables server ready for production, its ugly/sexy and has everything I want except that its got a learning curve I havent sobered up enough to get a full grasp on, but its got all the documentory and reporting features I want, would love it if Bertram bought it out and integrated it, id be so exited Id get the vapors.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > Check out phpipam > > On Sep 16, 2016 10:39 AM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> We use Powercode, they ebb and flow. Other than simon who escaped by the >> skin of his teeth after murdering the guy before him I think they have >> gladiator fights for the lead role because every time a new lead comes in >> the last one disappears off the face of the earth. I imagine being in the >> office up there looks like something out of mad max. >> >> But overall, its a satisfying product, the inventory component is >> absolutely useless, but the rest is pretty reliable. Customers like the >> feel of the portal interface, I would prefer we had the ability to >> manipulate it more, but I also want my own pony named Miguel. >> Support responsiveness is normally pretty good, occasionally it gets meh, >> but I think you have that with any company depending on the work load. >> >> What I do like about it, is that I dont have to know much to manage it, >> The server build is down to a cut and past CLI job if it needs rebuilt. It >> performs well in a decent VM host. >> >> It really appears they are moving away from user driven development >> (there used to be constant interaction) toward more of a programmed >> development cycle, which is good and bad, but mostly a positive move. >> >> It would be nice if they had clean IPAM, i still have a set of excel >> spreadsheets for master subnet documentation, but I dont think there is >> such a beast in IPAM that would satisfy everyone. >> >> The ticketing system became super useful once they added external email >> accounts, it allowed us to decommission a secondary ticketing system. Its >> only good for our ISP side, not our contract services side however because >> it doesnt offer clean time tracking or multiple tech separation >> >> My boss is very frugal when it comes to anything that generates a >> recurring cost, and he sees Powercode as a beneficial recurring cost, so >> that does say something about the product. >> >> I cuss them every couple months over something or other, its usually >> 50/50 whether its something I screwed up, or a bug in their system, but it >> always gets resolved. We have an ongoing issue with email fetching that >> happens, but they gave me a cli tool to resolve it, and its caused by >> something external and outside their control, so I cant hold it against >> them. >> >> There is currently no way to easily reset the tracking metrics on tickets >> and times, but thats no deal breaker, they will eventually clean it up. >> >> If youre looking for actual inventory management with any type of >> valuation, its definetly not the product. Azotel had that when we were >> looking into them, and I think you could tie in crystal reports to get some >> really amazing data, but it seems like Azotel went to sleep >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Vlad Sedov <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> We've been running Freeside for the last 10 years. It takes a bit of >>> perl and linux knowledge to get it running (or just download the VM), but >>> hey, what do you want for nothing? >>> >>> Feature-wise, freeside is on par with the big boys these days.. Can't >>> think of anything it doesn't have that an ISP billing system should have. >>> The new version even has tower coverage mapping... very WISP-friendly. >>> >>> >>> peace >>> >>> Vlad >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/16/2016 12:50 AM, TJ Trout wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Could I trouble you all for a quick survey / recommendation on billing >>>> systems? >>>> >>>> I've been looking at; >>>> >>>> Power code ( seems like too many red flags with this company) >>>> >>>> Platypus ( good price, but I don't want to become a dev just to bill my >>>> customers) >>>> >>>> Visp seems like a decent option? >>>> >>>> Wisp Mon? Don't know much about them, prices seem high, haven't heard >>>> anything bad so that's a good sign? >>>> >>>> Swift fox? ( Seems like unpopular option maybe because they're new?) >>>> >>>> Sonar? Maybe that's the one? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >> > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
