Manage collections of computers systems (environments). Associate software, teams, roles and computers to collections of computers (environments).
- Manage and view multiple environments
- Assosiate a team to an environment and book it out for a period of time
- Collect the version of the software from the system
- Collect system properites such as cpu count/memory size/disk space.
- Compare environments
- Very simple cmdb
##What it is NOT
- Monitoring - install nagios/prometheus
- Metrics Collection - install collectd
- Metrics Display - install grafana
##Architecture
- server - collects information from the client. Runs the web app
- client - runs from cron collects system/software information and sends it to the server.
##Glossary
- computer/server/node/system - Can have multiple roles?
- role - one to many relationship to computers
- environment - one to many relationship to roles
- software - many to one relationship to a role
- hardware - refers to both virtual and physical hardware
Computer must have the following defined -
- role
- environment
godep save -r ./...##Notes
- Should I use collectd rather than the client? Collectd could already be in use and this systems should be completely out of band.