Re: Summary: Web Based tool for tracking circuits

["william(at)elan.net" <william () elan net>]

Several commercial ip allocation systems exist (cost thousands, I came 
across couple of them but did not keep list). The closest opensource on 
this is freeipdb (http://www.freeipdb.org), but its not very feature-rich.
The IRM project (which I've never heard about until I just demod it right 
now), comes much closer to what maybe needed and it does seem like it can 
be converted to serve ISP allocation needs somewhat easily and is quite 
extensible for shared enviroments, but in any case, such project needs to 
be done right, i.e.:
 1. Creating mail list and first discussing and list of goals and features
    we want in this system.
 2. Looking at existing project to see which can feets best or parts of which 
    of which projects can possible be combined together
 2. Creating sourceforge (or other) project and assiging features to be 
    implemented to developers. 
 Etc.

If others are interested lets get together to work on it. I'm willing to 
help in possible support for rwhois server or automated swips to arin and 
some other back-end support where I have some experience I'm guessing 
that at least half a dozen people need to get involved and be willing to 
spend some of their time (perhaps 10 hours/month) for this to come through
and most need to be php web developers if IRM is to be used as origin. 

If I receive favorable response privately about it and enough people are 
willing to spend their time on it, I'll let you know about what the project
development webpage would be (i.e. sourceforge most likely)

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Marius Strom wrote:

> Sorry about the self-reply, but I figured I'd keep the Followup threads
> going on this one.
>
> Out of almost a dozen responses received, it seems that everyone is
> currently looking for such a solution. Everyone currently seems to be
> using their own Excel spreadsheet (which, obviously, isn't that ideal in
> a shared environment).
>
> One person is using IRM[1], slightly modified to track circuits and IP
> allocations instead of just tracking computers.
>
> Another person (Curtis Maurand <curtis () maurand com>) sent mail to NANOG
> indicating at one point he was working on such a beast. Curtis, I'm
> gonna pass the buck to you -- it looks like it's time to dust off your
> project cause nothing else exists. If you're wanting to do so, contact
> me off-list and I'll see what help I can lend (though IANA web
> developer).
>
> [1]: http://www.atrustrivalie.org/irm/
>
> On Sun, 07 Mar 2004, Marius Strom wrote:
> > I know there's always people searching out web based utils for tracking
> > IP allocations and such, but surprisingly I don't recall there ever
> > being discussion on tracking circuits. I'm looking for such a tool and
> > am curious if anyone knows of one?
> >
> > I'm looking to track: circuit type, circuit id, trouble reporting
> > number, serving telco.  Possibly more, such as connected-router
> > information, etc.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, if there's sufficient demand I'll summarize back to
> > the list.
> >
> > -- 
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