CMDB

CMDB - Configuration Management DataBase

CMS - Configuration Management System (ususally providing some web interface and built on top of CMDB)

Articles

• Blog about CMDB implementation: cmdb-implementation
• Top 10 reasons NOT to implement CMDB: why-not-to-implement-cmdb
• The CMDB boundary problem: cmdb-boundary-problem
• What is the purpose of a CMDB? purpose-of-cmdb
• Why you should never have a CMDB project? why-you-should-never-have-cmdb

Migrations

From ANY CMDB to Django CMDB

Django insepctdb module allows you to migrate from an old CMDB engine to a new one (Django based) within an hour.. Below you can find two examples presenting the idea:

http://www.ianlewis.org/en/administer-wordpress-django-admin http://labs.freehackers.org/projects/djangoredmineadmin

Tools

Ralph

Open source CMDB implementation with Hardware focus (Django + Python + Celery)

Home Page: https://github.com/allegro/ralph/blob/master/doc/cmdb.rst