From: Bandt, A. <Aar...@ci...> - 2012-09-27 15:14:42
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We are also using it extensively here at Citygrid for a variety of tasks (inventory management, as an ENC for puppet, jenkins/nagios integration and configuration, a source of truth for route 53, to name a few). The lack of active development on the project is a little discouraging, but it is a great tool as it stands, certainly the best one I've seen. Keep in mind that it is just a rails app, and even with meager ruby skills (such as mine) it can be extended/patched. I'm sure that if you take it for a test drive you will find it to be as indispensable as we have. Thanks, -Aaron On Sep 27, 2012, at 4:17 AM, John Alberts wrote: > Hi Pat. Thanks for the detailed response. Glad to hear you're still using it and it's working for well for you. It's promising that your company (and maybe YP) is still using it, because it leaves hope that as EOL for Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.x draws near, time might be allocated by someone's company to update it. I'm still very much considering using Nventory in our company, but this project has been put on the back burner likely until the end of October. If we do end up using it, hopefully we'll be able to dedicate some time to keeping it up to date. > /me crosses fingers. :) > > John > > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Pat O'Brien <obr...@gm...> wrote: > Hey John > > I'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge, but if I am incorrect of misstate something hopefully someone can/will correct it. > > To the best of my knowledge the two largest users and contributors of nVentory are YP Holdings (Formerly AT&T Interactive(Formerly Yellowpages.com)) and eHarmony. Speaking only on behalf of eHarmony, our contributions have been more ad-hoc as opposed to along any sort of roadmap. In the past year[1] or so the code contributions have been mainly from eHarmony's Darren Dao. Not sure what's been doing on on the YP end, but changes to code, or at least those that are contributed back, have slowed down. We've got most of the features that we need in, and with Darren no longer at eHarmony we probably won't be pushing much except for occasional bug fixes, and maybe a feature we feel needed. > > One thing to keep in mind is that nVentory was written with Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.x.y - Ruby 1.8.7 entered into "bugfixes only" in June of this year[2], and then all support, including security fixes, will be discontinued in June 2013. I'm not quite sure what would be involved in updating everything to be Ruby 1.9.3. The other issue is the update to a newer Rails version. Rails is discontinuing support for Ruby 1.8.7 after Rails 3.2.x has run it's course[3], but even updating nVentory to Rails 3.x would be a pretty large undertaking. With that said, we're always looking for contributors :) > > With all of that bad sounding stuff out of the way - we rely on nVentory for quite a lot at eHarmony - we have Chef, Etch[4], Nagios, Jenkins, and a handful of other tools which all pull data from nVentory. We wouldn't be able to do what we've done as far as automation, scalability, usability, and dependability without it. > > I hope this isn't too discouraging, it really is a great tool that does it's job well. We've found it's pretty easy to integrate other tools with and I haven't seen any other tools as mature as it which fills the needs that nVentory fills. > > -pat > > > 1- http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nventory/log/ > 2- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/ > 3- http://rubyonrails.org/download > 4- https://github.com/etch > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:01 AM, John Alberts <joh...@gm...> wrote: > Hi. I REALLY like what I see in nventory, but I'm worried about the status of the project. I don't want to start using something that is no longer maintained or has no long term plans. Also, I'm not sure of the size of the user base. I see that eHarmony is using it, or at least they were last year. Are there a lot of users out there and are you happy with nventory? > > -- > John Alberts > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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