I’ve been requested to create something like a ‘clickable view’ of our
servers, with links to (or at least information about) services running
on these servers. For example, click on OES server and it opens
iManager, click on Windows server running MS SQL and it opens up
idunnowhat. I don’t even know where to start looking for a solution for
something like that. Of course we have monitoring (Zabbix), a manually
maintained database of all our servers, a wiki describing how various
services are set up… but apparently none of that is “it”. Is someone,
somewhere, using something that sounds like a solution for that
particular request?
Do they actually want real time results, or are they just looking for
a roadmap of what is run where? If the latter, you can just do an IT
organizational chart with pop-ups that list what’s running on the
servers.
I’m guessing they’re looking for the latter, especially when you
already have the Wiki, a database, and a monitoring system. It sounds
to me like someone just wants to understand the larger overview of
the system, not so much that actual nuts and bolts. : )
Oh, also, have you looked at Spiceworks? I haven’t looked at it in
awhile, but it had some sort of capacity for pulling network parts
into an organizational structure.
I’ve been requested to create something like a ‘clickable view’ of our
servers, with links to (or at least information about) services running
on these servers. For example, click on OES server and it opens
iManager, click on Windows server running MS SQL and it opens up
idunnowhat. I don’t even know where to start looking for a solution for
something like that. Of course we have monitoring (Zabbix), a manually
maintained database of all our servers, a wiki describing how various
services are set up… but apparently none of that is “it”. Is someone,
somewhere, using something that sounds like a solution for that
particular request?[/color]
We use nagvis here to give a pretty clickable map frontend onto our
icinga (actually, onto mklivestatus, but that’s a presentation layer)
its pretty flexible - host icon mouse hover gives you the current
service list and status from icinga (so should work for Zabbix too,
assuming it supports mklivestatus or some other api nagvis can hook to)
and clicking an icon redirects to an url of the admin’s choice.
