Matt Shields suggested: > Everyone should have some type of > datacenter/server room asset/rack/IP/cable management system in place. > Whether it's home grown or something like http://racktables.org/
Good point. I always build my own inventory-management system. Labor cost of keeping it updated depends on how good the discovery scripts are (those which periodically comb through the data center to pick up machine-readable info like hostnames, MAC addresses, motherboard serial numbers and such--facter is your friend). The DRAC solution for KVM has the advantage of a 1-to-1 physical connection between console and server ports; the Raritan solution is typically set up as 32-to-1 which means the asset tracking database can be a bit of work to keep up to date. Most engineers, I've found, can't be bothered with a manual asset-update procedure so a QA lab quickly gets out of date as console ports are moved around constantly. Thanks for bringing up this point, Matt. -rich _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
