Data center management is pretty big. I suspect most big centers have roll-your-own solutions. Here are the open source solutions I looked at:

RackTables
RackMonkey
OneCMDB
GLPI

Just FYI.

Have you used any software for tracking data center assets? This computer powered by this UPS which is covered by this service contract?
Some background: I asked a similar question on the FreeBSD ISP mailing list. Check that out.

I was looking at RackMonkey and RackTables today. As part of the latter, I was installing PostgreSQL on my FreeBSD workstation. I failed. This had worked many times before, on many other servers. This was the first time I’d seen this particular situation.

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb
The files belonging to this database system […]

I managed to get CENTOS5 booting today. In a virtual machine on my FreeBSD workstation. This post is mainly just notes for myself.
Create the blank HDD image file on my host OS:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 c.img 3G
Installing the new guest OS, by booting from the ISO image which appears as a CDROM:
qemu -cdrom […]

These are my notes on attempting to setup OneCMBD. Some of these items would be added directly to their wiki, if I they give me access.
At http://www.onecmdb.org/wiki/index.php/Get_Started_V2.0#On_Linux_platforms_2:

bin/onemdb.sh start should be bin/onecmdb.sh start (missing a ‘c’)
Same for the stop command.
Same error occurs in the README.

bin/onecmdb.sh contains #!/bin/bash. Why bash? Why not /bin/sh?

ELF binary […]

Are any of you running OneCMDB? If not, are you running some other Configuration Management Database?

I wanted to buy a netbook tonight. I failed. The website claimed the item was in stock. Off I went.
“Sorry, we don’t carry that item at this store.”
I’m sorry Best Buy, but I’m not driving to another store until you give me accurate information.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been learning more about XSL, Javascript, and CSS. Along the way, I’ve been doing much more work with PDO. Yesterday I encountered a 501: Internal Server Error which had me stumped until this morning.
The SQL was something like this:

INSERT INTO mybconfig.keys (key_name, key_type_id) VALUES ( :key_name, :key_id_type […]