Can anyone recommend a Plone product within which you can track and
manage hardware/software?

Thanks,
Cynthia

Cynthia York wrote:[...]

We were planning on building an IT inventory management system in Plone 
this summer! :) We'd appreciate any alternatives.
[...]

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 7:47 pm, John Kavanagh wrote:[...]

Essentially, this sort of thing is very easy to do with Archetypes, since most 
inventory systems are just straightforward tables with fields like 
asset-name, asset-serial, person-assigned-to, etc. I don't know of any 
pre-built ones, but it would be a great, straightforward app for ZPUG to work 
on, since it sounds like there are at least 2 of y'all interested in the 
task.

- j.

If you're contemplating asset management I don't need to tell you that 
it's sort of like accounting. Mostly in that it's the bit you see is 
the tip of the iceberg and there's oodles of complexity underneath.

My old company got bought by Best Software and while I never got to 
work on the fixed asset tracking software side I understand Best's 
product is still the gold standard in mid-market space. I drunkenly 
agreed to port the FAS product to the Web at a conference once but once 
everybody sobered up we never spoke of that moment again. Phew!

You might want to have a look at

	http://www.BestSoftware.com/FAS

and click around the feature sheet. Not all of the features will apply 
to what you're doing but if you do build an honest-to-goodness open 
source product you'll need to attract other developers. And this should 
give you a good guide of the type of roadmap you'll have to construct 
to get others interested.

On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Cynthia York wrote:
[...]
Bees do not have knees, they bend from the hip.

Okay so I wasn't looking for that level of product but, was wondering
if there would be some type of Plone implementation that a small IT
shop could use to keep track of its hardware/software purchases,
licenses, upgrades, etc.
Per Joel's comment, would there be any interest within ZPUGDC for this
as a future meeting topic or project?

Cynthia
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On 6/21/05, Jules <jules(at)jules.com> wrote:[...]

I would be interested in helping with such an effort, if only to sharpen
my plone talons.
[...][...][...]

poe(at)slackworks.com wrote:
[...][...]
>>>it's sort of like accounting. Mostly in that it's the bit you see
is
>>>the tip of the iceberg and there's oodles of complexity underneath.
>>>
>>>My old company got bought by Best Software and while I never got to
>>>work on the fixed asset tracking software side I understand Best's
>>>product is still the gold standard in mid-market space. I drunkenly
>>>agreed to port the FAS product to the Web at a conference once but
once
>>>everybody sobered up we never spoke of that moment again. Phew!
>>>
>>>You might want to have a look at
>>>
>>>        http://www.BestSoftware.com/FAS
>>>
>>>and click around the feature sheet. Not all of the features will
apply
>>>to what you're doing but if you do build an honest-to-goodness open
>>>source product you'll need to attract other developers. And this
should
>>>give you a good guide of the type of roadmap you'll have to
construct
>>>to get others interested.
>>>
>>>On Jun 21, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Cynthia York wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Can anyone recommend a Plone product within which you can track
and
>>>>manage hardware/software?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Cynthia
>>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>      
>>>[...][...]
r
[...]

To the asset trackers:

Anyone have a list of requirement's?

I would like to see this happen. Enough that I would like to start
working on it. 

I need/want to be able to track multiple clients HW/SW.  I want to be
able to track:

Hardware/Software
Service Tag/Express Service Code (we do a lot of Dell)
Serial Number
OS, Version, Patchlevel
Architecture
Purpose
IP if static/ DHCP if so on multiple interfaces if extant
SSID/WEP Key if Wireless enabled
MAC(s)
Last audit date / next audit date


Sortable By:
Client /company
Manufacturer / Vendor / OSS project
SW
HW

Anyone have ideas on what is missing how it should be structured?
Should I start a seperate list for it so it doesn't create a bunch of
non plone traffic or should it stay as an example of ongoing development?

Company (folderish):
Name
Address
Phone
PoC
??

Contains:
  Hardware (Addable)
     ID
     S/N
     Location
          Office, Dept, etc.
     Vendor
     Service Tag
     Express Service Code
     OS, Version, Patchlevel
     Architecture
     Purpose: WS, Server, Network Appliance, Printer
     IP if static/ DHCP
     SSID
     WEP key
     MAC(s)
     Last audit date
     Next audit date

  Software  (Addable)
     ID
     Location / Install location by Machine ID
     Vendor
     Revision/Patch level
    


Debatable items are Admin names and passwords per machine/app, I'd like
it...

Ideas , suggestions?

~r

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