1. CCIS RackTables

2. What is RackTables? Hardware documentation
Lists all managed devices, IPs, racks, and enclosures
Firewall and NAT rules
Loadbalancing policy and configuration
User creation
Permissions
Global Access

3. Why do we need it? Hostbase .txt 1 editor at a time 20 years old
Arcane
Command-line only
good/bad

4. What are our options? RackTables Open Source ITDB dcTrack Commercial
RackSmith

5. What does Systems want? Auto-Find IP for new machines
Queriable without touching the SQL database
Edit control (overwrite warnings)
Work with DNS, DHCP, and NFS
Audit trail (history, notes, etc)
Port locations, room numbers, machdb
Optional, but would be nice

6. What are our steps? Research
What is available? What have other sysadmins done? Exactly what does hostbase do that we don't need? What is it missing?
Testing
Virtualisation, prototyping, etc.
(will take the most time)
Hardware allocation
Implementation
Most likely will not happen this semester.