If you just want to expose the database guts with a web client you could check out phpmyadmin http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
On 2/9/06, Allen Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PHP's already got everything you need built under the hood. There's plenty of > examples of code using PHP to interface with a MySQL DB out there to boot. > > James Brigman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey TriLUGers - Currently at work, > we use a MS-SQL database for tracking > servers and various configuration parameters about said servers: CPU # > and speed, RAM, Disk, lease end date, etc. It's all manual, and it's an > extreme pain to use and update (manually). Worse yet, it's not > web-delivered, multi-user and remote sites can't use it at all. Plus, > performance over WAN links is terrible. > > This seems like a perfect application to host on MySQL fronted with a > web-form type front end. I'd love nothing better than to pull the data > out of the MS-SQL database and put it into MySQL, then serve it using an > authenticated, Apache-served web page. > > My question to the list is: has anyone built MySQL databases containing > your equipment inventories and fronted with web portals where you can > add/edit/delete the various bits of data? > > And if anyone is doing such a thing, is there a good tool for quickly > making such a database portal, or am I just being a database n00b by > assuming it's a major deal to do it from the ground up without a tool to > help? (I figure things like drop-downs, select fields and data typing > are non-trivial to do in a web form.) > > More importantly, is anyone using such a portal as a foundation for, > say, NAGIOS monitoring, such that the NAGIOS tool uses the database to > know what to monitor? What say you big pulsing *NIX brains of the > TriLUG? > > JKB > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
