Yes .. 

 - You need to find a way to uniquely define a host that's easy to remember .. 
and that persists regardless of the hosts location or hostname .. service tag … 
Equipment Control Number .. etc.. 

 - You want to put it in a field to make it findable.  Tags is a good way to do 
this… and I wrote some scripts to check tags for things that look like 
hostnames and make sure they're correct and if not .. flag the ticket. 

 - We're looking to integrate this with Zenoss's database of our systems .. 
some interesting fun there.. but similarly could be integrated with Nagios .. 
the key is to have a 'key' value that is persistent and consistant. 

 - We added 'qa' as a workflow for the originator to approve the repair.. this 
way we get feedback that things are complete.

 - We added auto-expiration for said return-to-service testing .. cause users 
are lazy. 

 - I used the 'WikiRegex' plugin to make all FQDN's for our internal site.. 
into wiki pages.  THis gave us an easy way to create linkable pages with ticket 
information, per-host information .. etc. ( eg .. ipcontrol.control.atol is 
autolinked as a wiki page )
 
 - I used email2trac to route inbound requests for service to the proper 
'queue' .. where a queue is defined by a particular Milestone and Component.  
THis is also useful for systems that create an email based alert for a 
particular problem ( say .. Raid controller that mails when there's a failure 
of a member ) .. we can route it right into Trac and create a service ticket 
for it.

I am working to release a configuration of 'trac' with a set of plugins that 
turn it into a really nice centralized information repository for a site.  If 
you're interested.. lemme know and I'll send you some info and a sanatized 
trac.conf and list of plugins .. etc.

 - b

On May 30, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Mark P. <[email protected]> wrote:

> My group isn't using TRAC yet but is strongly considering it.  We'd need to 
> use it for both our software and hardware trouble tickets.  Would anybody 
> care to comment on their experience in using TRAC for hardware issue tracking?
>  
> Thanks!
> Mark P.
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