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Re: Cabling databases and wireless networks


From: Hugh Irvine <hugh () open com au>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:08:23 +1100



Hello Eric -

I answered a question the other day about radius servers (Radiator), but you 
may be interested to know that we also offer a solution in this area called 
"Nets" (commercial source code product).

        http://www.open.com.au/nets

Many readers of this list kindly assisted us with beta-testing of Nets about 
a year ago, prior to release.

Please contact me directly if interested.

regards

Hugh


On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:45, Eric Gauthier wrote:
curious ... how did you implement this database ? Was it a commercial
offering or is it a 'robust' home grown solution?

Today, its just a home-grown Oracle database with a web front-end for
searches.  My impression (though I'm not the DBA who built it / maintains
it) is that there are tables for equipment with attributes like
hostname, IP, subnet that it drives, physical location, # ports, etc.,
as well as location tables for each of our core wiring closets that
contain patch panel informaiton, drop numbers, locations, etc.
If you are looking for details, drop me a note offline and I'll forward
it to our DBA.

Having said all that, we are thinking about moving to a more
commercial system so that we can tie the information into a ticket
system, asset tracking system, etc. (i.e. Pinnacle, Remedy, etc).  But,
as with all things in todays market, "thinking" means "sitting
around the lunch table and saying "that would be neat" and not "I
have a budget".  [Translation: sales droids, do NOT send inquiries because
we have no money to spend on this nor am I authorized to approve any
spending for this.]

Eric :)

-- 
Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X.
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Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.


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