Hi,
We are looking to utilize CMDBuild for keeping track of configuration for our network equipment such as switches and firewalls. I've looked through the manuals and documentation, and they seem to be geared more towards asset management, which is awesome, but if someone has a sample setup on using CMDBuild for configuration that would be awesome.
Thanks in advance.
If you're looking to specify something like switchport configuration, you could create classes for things like VLAN's and Interfaces, then have a relationship between VLANS and Interfaces then Interfaces and Switches. This would allow you to specify a VLAN and look at each interface on each switch that the VLAN is assigned to.
In the case of trunked VLANs you would probably want to use a many to many relationship with domain based attributes denoting any additional data you want to throw in for that relationship. In addition you could specify interfaces for your servers as well as switches and use a 1:1 relationship to highlight direct connectivity from server ports to switch ports. Interface to Interface internal relationship.
My configuration uses seperate interface classes for each system type, such as servers, workstations, switches, routers, firewalls, environmental objects and so on. They then have 1:1 relationships between each and all belong to an Interfaces superclass which has a relationship with my VLAN's.
Not only would this method help with your network configuration mapping, it also would let you see what servers / workstations / etc reside in what VLAN.
Previously Tony S. Wu wrote:
Hi,
We are looking to utilize CMDBuild for keeping track of configuration for our network equipment such as switches and firewalls. I've looked through the manuals and documentation, and they seem to be geared more towards asset management, which is awesome, but if someone has a sample setup on using CMDBuild for configuration that would be awesome.
Thanks in advance.