network_inventory/README.org

• network_inventory
  • Setup
  • Todos
    • Setup an Ansible role
      • NEXT Create an Apache configuration
      • CANCELED move the database to mariadb
      • NEXT setup a server
      • NEXT configure htaccess or something similar
    • NEXT extend the CSS
    • NEXT include a RAID calculator
    • NEXT calculate the used space on a host
    • NEXT Move the lists to their own page
    • NEXT Add a Counter to the RAM Modules
    • NEXT Create an abstract company class
    • NEXT Create Customer and a Manufacturer sub class
    • NEXT Create a NET category where a device can live in.
    • NEXT Create class DeviceInNet
    • NEXT Recreate the RM in draw.io
  • Developemenet

network_inventory

I started this project in order to have solution for keeping an inventory over my various servers and other network equipment.

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Create a virtual environment inside of the repository for example with:

python3 -m venv /path/to/repository

1. Cd into the repository and execute the setup.sh script. It will do some clean up tasks, install some python dependencies into the virtual environment, setup the database and a default user with the login admin and the password password.
2. Afterwards you can run:

./manage.py runserver

In order to run the developmenent server and access the application at http://localhost:8000

Todos

TODO Setup an Ansible role

NEXT Create an Apache configuration

CANCELED move the database to mariadb

CLOSED: [2017-12-28 Thu 16:15]

• I had massive problems with mysqlclient and python3.5 and therefore dropped this. SQLite seems to work reasonably well.

NEXT setup a server

NEXT configure htaccess or something similar

NEXT extend the CSS

• A more centered layout would be nice
• Maybe some colours

NEXT include a RAID calculator

• https://thoughtworksnc.com/2017/08/30/writing-a-raid-calculator-in-python/

I would like to use this to show the usable space in a RAID system.

NEXT calculate the used space on a host

Means calculate the size all the VMs would use if they were thick.

NEXT Move the lists to their own page

• Since I have more devices than I thought it would provide a better overview than one big list.

NEXT Add a Counter to the RAM Modules

NEXT Create an abstract company class

NEXT Create Customer and a Manufacturer sub class

Those two would be based on the company class. I'm currently not sure how I should handle the case where a company is both a customer and a manufacturer.

NEXT Create a NET category where a device can live in.

This NET Category should display it's IP range, Subnet mask and show it's DHCP range if one is configured.

NEXT Create class DeviceInNet

This class shows the relationship between the device and a NET. An attribute of a DeviceInNet should be an IP address.

NEXT Recreate the RM in draw.io

The Dia RM is okay but not really that great. Draw.io would give a better result.

Developemenet

For a detailed documentation of the source have a look at the documentation.