Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-28 Thread Leonardo Certuche
Hello again, One of our clients already had a mature implementation of Nagios for monitoring all their CIs. We developed for them a kind of web service which is used for Nagios as a plugin to monitor changes between baseline (OTRS CMDB) and what currently is (Nagios findings). Each time a discrepa

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-28 Thread Steve Durbin
We went for a mix-and-match solution which may be of interest to others. We create records on OTRS for each newly purchased device from our procurement process. We use Microsoft SCCM as the main discovery and management tool, and pick up data from SCCM daily which is injected into the OTRS reco

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-28 Thread Nils Leideck
Dear all, Mike, of course as a Consultant I am very process focused, sometimes close to oversee the usability in terms of tool handling speeds =) =) =) Just kidding ... I really recommend to keep the insertion of new CIs a manual procedure. Of course, if you have a CVS file or such, and you hav

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-28 Thread Ionel GARDAIS
Nachricht- Von: otrs-boun...@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-boun...@otrs.org] Im Auftrag von Michiel Beijen Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2011 01:59 An: User questions and discussions about OTRS. Betreff: Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery Yeah; this is a valid point: you really should control

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Grzella, Mark
...@otrs.org] Im Auftrag von Michiel Beijen Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2011 01:59 An: User questions and discussions about OTRS. Betreff: Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery Yeah; this is a valid point: you really should control the changes done to your CMDB. That said, auto-populating

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Michiel Beijen
Yeah; this is a valid point: you really should control the changes done to your CMDB. That said, auto-populating and/or updating the CMDB with a discovery tool should not lead to an out-of-control configuration management process per se. The problem is that you would NOT want to populate and/or m

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Nils Leideck
Dear all, On 27.04.2011, at 21:50, Leonardo Certuche wrote: > Please keep in mind that auto-populating your CMDB using a discovery tool > will lead to an out of control configuration management process. > > What we do is the following: we get the inventory from OCS, export it to CSV, > and the

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Butler
Agreed. We use nmap2mysql to build initial databases, then selectively import into the CMDB. The next evolutionary step would be an OTRS CMDB client agent. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Leonardo Certuche < leonardo.certu...@itconsultores.com.co> wrote: > Hello, > > We happen to be partners o

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Leonardo Certuche
Hello, We happen to be partners of both OTRS and OCS Inventory. Please keep in mind that auto-populating your CMDB using a discovery tool will lead to an out of control configuration management process. What we do is the following: we get the inventory from OCS, export it to CSV, and then import

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Robert Butler
Take a look at nmap2mysql. > > What's the best discovery tool (preferably open source) that people > are using? Comments from the list are welcome! > -- > Mike > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:42 PM, GARDAIS Ionel > wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > We give a try to OCS Inventory to collect datas about

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Gerald Young
Spiceworks but otherwise .. I don't know, http://alternativeto.net/software/spiceworks/ On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Michiel Beijen wrote: > Would be great to have! Currently we don't have anything like this, > you can however import inventory data from discovery tooling into the > CMDB. > >

Re: [otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread Michiel Beijen
Would be great to have! Currently we don't have anything like this, you can however import inventory data from discovery tooling into the CMDB. What's the best discovery tool (preferably open source) that people are using? Comments from the list are welcome! -- Mike On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:42 P

[otrs] OTRS ITSM : computers discovery

2011-04-27 Thread GARDAIS Ionel
Hi list, We give a try to OCS Inventory to collect datas about the computers we manage. We ran into a few problems that led me to drop this tool … Then I discovered OTRS for ticket requests : stable, efficient, all good. I installed the ITSM package on a test system and was wondering if a platefo