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Re: [nventory-users] nventory-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 1

[Michael K. <mk...@yp...>]

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[nventory-users] Help with RH7

[Vadim I. <Vad...@eh...>]

Hi, Guys.

Need a little help here.

Trying to set-up nventory client on RH 7.2.

Probs discovered so far:
Perl versions
Ruby versions

Thanks in advance
--------
Vadim

Re: [nventory-users] A password in nVentory

[Jason H. <jh...@ap...>]

On Jul 18, 2013, at 2:36 PM, 兰天 <sk...@fo...> wrote:

> I've recently found a password in the source code of nVentory.
> 
> It's "qq8Erkee&T" in nventory-0.87\client\windows\nVentoryRegisterClient\nVentoryRegisterClient\Program.cs
> 
> Is this a security bug?
> 
> Is it essential?
> 

It's not a security bug.  That was the default password for the autoreg user in earlier days of nVentory.  At some point the default password was changed to "autoreg" (same as the username) to make it more clear to new nVentory users that they should change the password to something unique to their installation.

[nventory-users] A password in nVentory

[兰天 <sk...@fo...>]

hi~

I've recently found a password in the source code of nVentory.

It's "qq8Erkee&T" in nventory-0.87\client\windows\nVentoryRegisterClient\nVentoryRegisterClient\Program.cs

Is this a security bug?

Is it essential?




Best regards

Tian Lan

[nventory-users] BUG: removing a graffiti, have a simple fix..

[Jared T. <Jar...@eh...>]

Hey Guys,

So I've a ruby script to add/remove a graffiti to a nodegroup and found the way nventory.rb is currently written, removing is not possible:

Consider,

  nodegroupname  = {:name => ["mynodegroup"]}
 nodegroup = nvclient.get_objects(:objecttype => 'node_groups', :exactget => nodegroupname, :includes => ['nodes'])
  graffiti_name  = "foo"
  result = nvclient.delete_graffiti("NodeGroup", nodegroup, graffiti_name , "me")

will fail in get_objects around ln 236, "if exactget... if values.length > 1" because it sees "foo" as being of length > 1.  Ok then, put it in an array:

  graffiti_name  = ["foo"]
  result = nvclient.delete_graffiti("NodeGroup", nodegroup, graffiti_name , "me")

Fail! Because in delete_graffiti it passes the nodegroup ID and type to get_objects, which fails as above because it sees this numeric/string as values > 1.

def delete_graffiti(obj_type, obj_hash, graffiti_name, login, password_callback=PasswordCallback)
    obj_hash.each_value do |obj|
      getdata = {:objecttype => 'graffitis',
                 :exactget => {:name => graffiti_name,
                                            :graffitiable_id => obj['id'],
                                            :graffitiable_type => obj_type}
                }
      graffitis_to_delete = get_objects(getdata)
      delete_objects('graffitis', graffitis_to_delete, login, password_callback)
    end
  end

The fix is to make graffitiable_id and graffitiable_type into arrays:

def delete_graffiti(obj_type, obj_hash, graffiti_name, login, password_callback=PasswordCallback)
    obj_hash.each_value do |obj|
      getdata = {:objecttype => 'graffitis',
                 :exactget => {:name => graffiti_name,
                               :graffitiable_id => [obj['id']],
                               :graffitiable_type => [obj_type]}
                }
      graffitis_to_delete = get_objects(getdata)
      delete_objects('graffitis', graffitis_to_delete, login, password_callback)
    end
  end

Not the most elegant (which would be update get_objects to inspect type perhaps and only care about .length in the case of Arrays?), but it works.  Was trying to see how to create a ticket on SourceForge, but don't see a way.  Another minor issue here is notice my "nodegroupname" has to be in an array for the same reason of this get_objects, if exactget .. if values.length ...

p.s. What's up Darren D!?

Thanks,

Jared Tafralian
Architect
eHarmony.com
jta...@eh...

Re: [nventory-users] ruby version?

[Jason H. <jh...@ap...>]

On Nov 9, 2012, at 1:50 AM, Kenneth Williams <hap...@gm...> wrote:

> Is there a recommendation on which versions of ruby appear to work best with nventory & etch these days? I see the centos install script uses 1.8.7, is that out of convenience, or another reason? Thanks! 

I haven't really kept up with nventory, but for etch either 1.8 or 1.9 should work.  That said, I do all development with 1.9 nowadays, so it's a better bet if you have a choice.

[nventory-users] ruby version?

[Kenneth W. <hap...@gm...>]

Is there a recommendation on which versions of ruby appear to work best
with nventory & etch these days? I see the centos install script uses
1.8.7, is that out of convenience, or another reason? Thanks!

Re: [nventory-users] using nVentory

[Yiping Z. <yip...@gm...>]

more questions below:

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Pat O'Brien <obr...@gm...> wrote:

> graffiti is a key,value pair for nodegroups - we use it primarily for
> application deployment, configuration, and monitoring.
>
> when an application is getting deployed by jenkins, our configuration
> management system will check the nodegroup in nventory for the
> "application_port" graffiti, and set the service to listen in on that port.
> since nventory is our "source of truth", the process which generates our
> monitoring configs can be assured that it needs to monitor all hosts in the
> nodegroup on the port that "application_port" says the application is
> running on.
>
> we also have keys along the lines of "rcs_tag", "healthcheck_uri",
> "instances" (to describe how many instances of the application are running),
> and so on. this is along the same lines as "tags" but more useful IMHO.
>
>
Since I have created several node groups, so I tried to add a graffiti
called "type" to each of these node groups. when I queries the
graffitis, I got a bunch of  warnings :

$ nv --objecttype graffitis --name=type
Duplicate entries for type. Only one will be shown.
Duplicate entries for type. Only one will be shown.
Duplicate entries for type. Only one will be shown.
Duplicate entries for type. Only one will be shown.
type
$

Is this a bug?  It seems to me that the namespace for graffitis should
be at node group level, not global.

Though I can still query graffitis for each individual node group with command:

$ nv --objecttype node_groups --name=my_ng --fields
graffitis[name],graffitis[value]


>>
>> 2) what is a "service"? Based on attributes for a service, it appears
>> to be what we normally describe an application. Is a service tied to a
>> node, a node group or something else? What are its usages?
>
>
> Services, as far as web services and the way we use them, is to describe a
> particular web service and all of the clients of that particular webservice.
> This would be useful for setting things like nagios service dependencies.
>
> Let's say you have "Web Service B" and "Web Service C" in your
> infrastructure, and both of them rely on fetching data from "Web Service A"
> - you would create service definitions for all three, and then set "Web
> Service B" and "Web Service C" as clients of "Web Service A"
>
> We also do this with databases and key, value stores. The way this is
> helpful for something like nagios is that nagios has the concept for Service
> Dependencies as well, which means that if Service A goes down, and you have
> Service B and Service C as dependent upon Service A, only Service A will
> send you a notification. This helps cut down on the amount of noise you get
> from nagios.
>

I am thinking  of using services to model my multi tiered
applications, e.g. my blog site consists of web servers, Jboss servers
and back end db servers. So my blog service will have web, Jboss and
db services as it child services.  Sounds like this is doable.

It seems that services are tied with node groups tightly: when one
creates a service, a node group with the same name is also created
automatically, but not the other way round, i.e. when one creates a
node group, no service with that same name will be automatically
created.

So what is the rational for this relationship ?

Thanks,

Yiping

> Hopefully this clears it up a bit - if not maybe someone else can :)
>
>>
>> 3) what is a "network port" ?  I tried to enter "80, http", I got an
>> error saying it's not included in the list, but I haven't entered
>> anything yet .  How is it to be used?
>
>
> I've never used this, but it looks like protocol refers to tcp or udp.
> judging by a quick glance at the model for network_port it looks like you
> would assign an ip address to a network port. It looks like the nventory
> ruby client doesn't make these associations for you, but I would imagine it
> would be useful if you are trying to get a list of all hosts listening on
> port n.
>
> -pat
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your feedbacks.
>>
>> Yiping
>>
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Re: [nventory-users] using nVentory

[Jason H. <jh...@ap...>]

On Oct 5, 2012, at 6:17 PM, "Pat O'Brien" <obr...@gm...> wrote:

> I've never used this, but it looks like protocol refers to tcp or udp. judging by a quick glance at the model for network_port it looks like you would assign an ip address to a network port. It looks like the nventory ruby client doesn't make these associations for you, but I would imagine it would be useful if you are trying to get a list of all hosts listening on port n.

There was an effort at one point at another nVentory-contributing company (that some of us used to work for) to scan all hosts either with a port scanner or by looking at netstat, I don't remember which, maybe both, and record what ports hosts were listening on in nVentory in order to detect and report on changes in port usage.

I suspect this functionality was related to that effort, but I'm too lazy to go look at the commit logs and attempt to confirm. That port scanning effort never got very far, so the functionality in nVentory may not be very complete or mature.

Jason

Re: [nventory-users] using nVentory

[Yiping Z. <yip...@gm...>]

Pat:

Thanks for detailed explanation. That helps a lot.

Yiping

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Pat O'Brien <obr...@gm...> wrote:
> Hey Yiping,
>
> comments inline
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Yiping Zhang <yip...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, All:
>>
>> I am currently also evaluating nVentory for our company. So far the
>> feedbacks are quite positive.
>>
>> I have a few questions about some features which I don't fully understand:
>>
>> 1) what is a "graffiti" ? What are its intended usages? Some real life
>> use cases would help me understand it better.
>
>
> graffiti is a key,value pair for nodegroups - we use it primarily for
> application deployment, configuration, and monitoring.
>
> when an application is getting deployed by jenkins, our configuration
> management system will check the nodegroup in nventory for the
> "application_port" graffiti, and set the service to listen in on that port.
> since nventory is our "source of truth", the process which generates our
> monitoring configs can be assured that it needs to monitor all hosts in the
> nodegroup on the port that "application_port" says the application is
> running on.
>
> we also have keys along the lines of "rcs_tag", "healthcheck_uri",
> "instances" (to describe how many instances of the application are running),
> and so on. this is along the same lines as "tags" but more useful IMHO.
>
>
>>
>> 2) what is a "service"? Based on attributes for a service, it appears
>> to be what we normally describe an application. Is a service tied to a
>> node, a node group or something else? What are its usages?
>
>
> Services, as far as web services and the way we use them, is to describe a
> particular web service and all of the clients of that particular webservice.
> This would be useful for setting things like nagios service dependencies.
>
> Let's say you have "Web Service B" and "Web Service C" in your
> infrastructure, and both of them rely on fetching data from "Web Service A"
> - you would create service definitions for all three, and then set "Web
> Service B" and "Web Service C" as clients of "Web Service A"
>
> We also do this with databases and key, value stores. The way this is
> helpful for something like nagios is that nagios has the concept for Service
> Dependencies as well, which means that if Service A goes down, and you have
> Service B and Service C as dependent upon Service A, only Service A will
> send you a notification. This helps cut down on the amount of noise you get
> from nagios.
>
> Hopefully this clears it up a bit - if not maybe someone else can :)
>
>>
>> 3) what is a "network port" ?  I tried to enter "80, http", I got an
>> error saying it's not included in the list, but I haven't entered
>> anything yet .  How is it to be used?
>
>
> I've never used this, but it looks like protocol refers to tcp or udp.
> judging by a quick glance at the model for network_port it looks like you
> would assign an ip address to a network port. It looks like the nventory
> ruby client doesn't make these associations for you, but I would imagine it
> would be useful if you are trying to get a list of all hosts listening on
> port n.
>
> -pat
>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your feedbacks.
>>
>> Yiping
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [nventory-users] using nVentory

[Pat O'B. <obr...@gm...>]

Hey Yiping,

comments inline

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Yiping Zhang <yip...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi, All:
>
> I am currently also evaluating nVentory for our company. So far the
> feedbacks are quite positive.
>
> I have a few questions about some features which I don't fully understand:
>
> 1) what is a "graffiti" ? What are its intended usages? Some real life
> use cases would help me understand it better.
>

graffiti is a key,value pair for nodegroups - we use it primarily for
application deployment, configuration, and monitoring.

when an application is getting deployed by jenkins, our configuration
management system will check the nodegroup in nventory for the
"application_port" graffiti, and set the service to listen in on that port.
since nventory is our "source of truth", the process which generates our
monitoring configs can be assured that it needs to monitor all hosts in the
nodegroup on the port that "application_port" says the application is
running on.

we also have keys along the lines of "rcs_tag", "healthcheck_uri",
"instances" (to describe how many instances of the application are
running), and so on. this is along the same lines as "tags" but more useful
IMHO.



> 2) what is a "service"? Based on attributes for a service, it appears
> to be what we normally describe an application. Is a service tied to a
> node, a node group or something else? What are its usages?
>

Services, as far as web services and the way we use them, is to describe a
particular web service and all of the clients of that particular
webservice. This would be useful for setting things like nagios service
dependencies.

Let's say you have "Web Service B" and "Web Service C" in your
infrastructure, and both of them rely on fetching data from "Web Service A"
- you would create service definitions for all three, and then set "Web
Service B" and "Web Service C" as clients of "Web Service A"

We also do this with databases and key, value stores. The way this is
helpful for something like nagios is that nagios has the concept for
Service Dependencies as well, which means that if Service A goes down, and
you have Service B and Service C as dependent upon Service A, only Service
A will send you a notification. This helps cut down on the amount of noise
you get from nagios.

Hopefully this clears it up a bit - if not maybe someone else can :)


> 3) what is a "network port" ?  I tried to enter "80, http", I got an
> error saying it's not included in the list, but I haven't entered
> anything yet .  How is it to be used?
>

I've never used this, but it looks like protocol refers to tcp or udp.
judging by a quick glance at the model for network_port it looks like you
would assign an ip address to a network port. It looks like the nventory
ruby client doesn't make these associations for you, but I would imagine it
would be useful if you are trying to get a list of all hosts listening on
port n.

-pat


> Thanks in advance for your feedbacks.
>
> Yiping
>
>
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[nventory-users] using nVentory

[Yiping Z. <yip...@gm...>]

Hi, All:

I am currently also evaluating nVentory for our company. So far the
feedbacks are quite positive.

I have a few questions about some features which I don't fully understand:

1) what is a "graffiti" ? What are its intended usages? Some real life
use cases would help me understand it better.
2) what is a "service"? Based on attributes for a service, it appears
to be what we normally describe an application. Is a service tied to a
node, a node group or something else? What are its usages?
3) what is a "network port" ?  I tried to enter "80, http", I got an
error saying it's not included in the list, but I haven't entered
anything yet .  How is it to be used?

Thanks in advance for your feedbacks.

Yiping

Re: [nventory-users] project status

[John A. <joh...@gm...>]

Great to hear from more satisfied users.  Everyone seems to be using and
loving it for the same reason that I'm considering using it.  I want
something to use for my source of truth for other tools, that has a nice
looking interface, and does just what I need it to do.  Nventory seems to
fit the bill perfectly.

Thanks for all of the replies.


John


On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Kenneth Williams <hap...@gm...>wrote:

> We're a much smaller company, but we integrate very tightly with it.
> Similar situation to Pat, it plays a critical role for us as a central
> element to the other automation and deployment applications we use. We
> have a few devs that know RoR pretty well and would likely dedicate
> some time to updating it if we had to. IMO updating nventory would
> likely be an easier option than finding something else that works as
> well, and then porting all the integrations over. It is a really great
> product, that's served me well for many years.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:17 AM, John Alberts <joh...@gm...>
> 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.
> Discussions
> >>> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in
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> >>> nve...@li...
> >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nventory-users
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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Re: [nventory-users] project status

[Kenneth W. <hap...@gm...>]

We're a much smaller company, but we integrate very tightly with it.
Similar situation to Pat, it plays a critical role for us as a central
element to the other automation and deployment applications we use. We
have a few devs that know RoR pretty well and would likely dedicate
some time to updating it if we had to. IMO updating nventory would
likely be an easier option than finding something else that works as
well, and then porting all the integrations over. It is a really great
product, that's served me well for many years.



On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:17 AM, John Alberts <joh...@gm...> 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. Discussions
>>> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
>>> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> nventory-users mailing list
>>> nve...@li...
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nventory-users
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> John Alberts
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [nventory-users] project status

[Bandt, A. <Aar...@ci...>]

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. Discussions
> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
> _______________________________________________
> nventory-users mailing list
> nve...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nventory-users
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Alberts
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
> Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
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Re: [nventory-users] project status

[John A. <joh...@gm...>]

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. Discussions
>> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
>> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
>> _______________________________________________
>> nventory-users mailing list
>> nve...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nventory-users
>>
>>
>


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Re: [nventory-users] project status

[Pat O'B. <obr...@gm...>]

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. Discussions
> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware
> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
> _______________________________________________
> nventory-users mailing list
> nve...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nventory-users
>
>

[nventory-users] project status

[John A. <joh...@gm...>]

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?

-- 
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Re: [nventory-users] error on new install

[John A. <joh...@gm...>]

I managed to get this fixed. It turns out that the :all_blank symbol is not
available in rails 2.3.2 even though that is the version specified in both
the install.sh and install_centos6.sh scripts.  It's also the version
specified everywhere in the wiki.

Now... to get the client working. :)

John


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:48 PM, John Alberts <joh...@gm...>wrote:

> I just got nventory installed on a new centos 5.8 server using the
> install.sh script in the server directory with a few minor modifications.
> The system ruby, which is 1.8.5, was too old, so I installed enterprise
> ruby 1.8.7 and rubygems 1.3.5.  I also installed nginx version 1.2.3.  The
> web app started ok and browsing around on the pages doesn't show any
> errors; however, when I try to create my first node and hit the create
> button, I get an error page.  This is what I have in production.log.
>
>
> Processing NodesController#create (for 64.94.37.83 at 2012-09-21 17:33:26)
> [POST]
>   Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "node"=>{"physical_memory"=>"",
> "os_processor_count"=>"", "serial_number"=>"", "name"=>"test node",
> "hardware_lifecycle_attributes"=>{"out_of_service_date(1i)"=>"",
> "out_of_service_date(2i)"=>"", "out_of_service_date(3i)"=>"",
> "out_of_service_date(4i)"=>"", "ship_date(1i)"=>"",
> "out_of_service_date(5i)"=>"", "ship_date(2i)"=>"", "ship_date(3i)"=>"",
> "ship_date(4i)"=>"", "ship_date(5i)"=>""},
> "os_virtual_processor_count"=>"", "uniqueid"=>"",
> "hardware_profile_id"=>"1", "processor_count"=>"", "asset_tag"=>"",
> "virtualarch"=>"", "config_mgmt_tag"=>"", "kernel_version"=>"",
> "preferred_operating_system_id"=>"", "operating_system_id"=>"",
> "expiration(1i)"=>"", "contact"=>"", "timezone"=>"",
> "power_supply_count"=>"", "expiration(2i)"=>"", "console_type"=>"",
> "processor_core_count"=>"", "processor_speed"=>"", "expiration(3i)"=>"",
> "expiration(4i)"=>"", "description"=>"", "swap"=>"", "os_memory"=>"",
> "processor_model"=>"", "expiration(5i)"=>"", "status_id"=>"2",
> "processor_socket_count"=>"", "physical_memory_sizes"=>"",
> "processor_manufacturer"=>""}, "action"=>"create", "controller"=>"nodes"}
>
> NoMethodError (undefined method `call' for :all_blank:Symbol):
>   app/controllers/nodes_controller.rb:159:in `new'
>   app/controllers/nodes_controller.rb:159:in `create'
>   unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:531:in `process_client'
>   unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:606:in `worker_loop'
>   unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:487:in `spawn_missing_workers'
>   unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:137:in `start'
>   unicorn (4.3.1) bin/unicorn_rails:209
>   /usr/local/bin/unicorn_rails:19:in `load'
>   /usr/local/bin/unicorn_rails:19
>
> Rendering /opt/nventory/public/500.html (500 Error)
>
>
>
> Any idea what's wrong?
>
> Thanks
> John
>
>


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[nventory-users] error on new install

[John A. <joh...@gm...>]

I just got nventory installed on a new centos 5.8 server using the
install.sh script in the server directory with a few minor modifications.
The system ruby, which is 1.8.5, was too old, so I installed enterprise
ruby 1.8.7 and rubygems 1.3.5.  I also installed nginx version 1.2.3.  The
web app started ok and browsing around on the pages doesn't show any
errors; however, when I try to create my first node and hit the create
button, I get an error page.  This is what I have in production.log.


Processing NodesController#create (for 64.94.37.83 at 2012-09-21 17:33:26)
[POST]
  Parameters: {"commit"=>"Create", "node"=>{"physical_memory"=>"",
"os_processor_count"=>"", "serial_number"=>"", "name"=>"test node",
"hardware_lifecycle_attributes"=>{"out_of_service_date(1i)"=>"",
"out_of_service_date(2i)"=>"", "out_of_service_date(3i)"=>"",
"out_of_service_date(4i)"=>"", "ship_date(1i)"=>"",
"out_of_service_date(5i)"=>"", "ship_date(2i)"=>"", "ship_date(3i)"=>"",
"ship_date(4i)"=>"", "ship_date(5i)"=>""},
"os_virtual_processor_count"=>"", "uniqueid"=>"",
"hardware_profile_id"=>"1", "processor_count"=>"", "asset_tag"=>"",
"virtualarch"=>"", "config_mgmt_tag"=>"", "kernel_version"=>"",
"preferred_operating_system_id"=>"", "operating_system_id"=>"",
"expiration(1i)"=>"", "contact"=>"", "timezone"=>"",
"power_supply_count"=>"", "expiration(2i)"=>"", "console_type"=>"",
"processor_core_count"=>"", "processor_speed"=>"", "expiration(3i)"=>"",
"expiration(4i)"=>"", "description"=>"", "swap"=>"", "os_memory"=>"",
"processor_model"=>"", "expiration(5i)"=>"", "status_id"=>"2",
"processor_socket_count"=>"", "physical_memory_sizes"=>"",
"processor_manufacturer"=>""}, "action"=>"create", "controller"=>"nodes"}

NoMethodError (undefined method `call' for :all_blank:Symbol):
  app/controllers/nodes_controller.rb:159:in `new'
  app/controllers/nodes_controller.rb:159:in `create'
  unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:531:in `process_client'
  unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:606:in `worker_loop'
  unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:487:in `spawn_missing_workers'
  unicorn (4.3.1) lib/unicorn/http_server.rb:137:in `start'
  unicorn (4.3.1) bin/unicorn_rails:209
  /usr/local/bin/unicorn_rails:19:in `load'
  /usr/local/bin/unicorn_rails:19

Rendering /opt/nventory/public/500.html (500 Error)



Any idea what's wrong?

Thanks
John

Re: [nventory-users] how to revert sample data !!

[Jason H. <jh...@ap...>]

There's no mechanism built-in to remove the sample data.  If you haven't added your own data yet you can just wipe the database and start over.  I started to put together a manual process for removing the data, but some of the data is randomly generated so it got messy and I quit.  Here's what I did write up (completely untested).  This won't remove everything though.  If you want to run this fire up the rails console (./script/console) and paste this in.

HardwareProfile.find_by_name('Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4100').destroy
HardwareProfile.find_by_name('Dell PowerEdge 1950').destroy
OperatingSystem.find_by_name('Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.2 x86_64').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('web-server').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('apache-server').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('nginx-server').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('firewall').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('firewall-primary').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('db').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('db-mysql').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('db-mysql-master').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('db-mysql-slave').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('pdu').destroy
NodeGroup.find_by_name('network-switch').destroy
Datacenter.find_by_name('New York').destroy
NodeRack.find_by_name('NY-Rack 001').destroy
Node.find_all_by_hardware_profile(HardwareProfile.find_by_name('Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4100')).destroy

On Jun 11, 2012, at 3:32 AM, Amal G wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> How to revert the sample data from nVentory,, ie I wants remove sample data from server and wants to have only my datas.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Amal
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[nventory-users] how to revert sample data !!

[Amal G <am...@gm...>]

Hello,

How to revert the sample data from nVentory,, ie I wants remove sample data
from server and wants to have only my datas.


Thanks,


Amal

Re: [nventory-users] no proxy

[Ian Y. <iy...@xe...>]

I figured out what I was doing wrong.  The instruction guide says to start
nVentory using port 8080 but the sample Apache configuration is set to
proxy to localhost:3000.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Pat O'Brien <obr...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Did you run the script provided from subversion (
> https://nventory.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nventory/trunk/server/install_centos6.sh)
> or did you actually follow the instructions listed? I haven't looked to see
> what the differences between the two are, but I believe using the script is
> a much easier and better way to get things started.
>
> -pat
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ian Young <iy...@xe...> wrote:
>
>> I followed the instructions at
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nventory/wiki/GettingStarted on a brand
>> new CentOS VM but when I try to start nVentory (whether as a daemon or not)
>> there is no proxy server for it to connect to.
>>
>> [Fri Mar 23 22:52:53 2012] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP:
>> attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (localhost) failed
>> [Fri Mar 23 22:52:53 2012] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
>> worker for (localhost)
>> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:02 2012] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTPS:
>> attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (localhost) failed
>> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:02 2012] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
>> worker for (localhost)
>> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:08 2012] [error] proxy: HTTP: disabled connection for
>> (localhost)
>> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:10 2012] [error] proxy: HTTP: disabled connection for
>> (localhost)
>>
>> I don't see anything in the getting started guide about setting up the
>> proxy server except installing the gem.  Is there something I missed?
>>
>>
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Re: [nventory-users] no proxy

[Pat O'B. <obr...@gm...>]

Hi Ian,

Did you run the script provided from subversion (
https://nventory.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nventory/trunk/server/install_centos6.sh)
or did you actually follow the instructions listed? I haven't looked to see
what the differences between the two are, but I believe using the script is
a much easier and better way to get things started.

-pat


On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ian Young <iy...@xe...> wrote:

> I followed the instructions at
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nventory/wiki/GettingStarted on a brand
> new CentOS VM but when I try to start nVentory (whether as a daemon or not)
> there is no proxy server for it to connect to.
>
> [Fri Mar 23 22:52:53 2012] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP:
> attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (localhost) failed
> [Fri Mar 23 22:52:53 2012] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
> worker for (localhost)
> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:02 2012] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTPS:
> attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (localhost) failed
> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:02 2012] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
> worker for (localhost)
> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:08 2012] [error] proxy: HTTP: disabled connection for
> (localhost)
> [Fri Mar 23 22:53:10 2012] [error] proxy: HTTP: disabled connection for
> (localhost)
>
> I don't see anything in the getting started guide about setting up the
> proxy server except installing the gem.  Is there something I missed?
>
>
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[nventory-users] no proxy

[Ian Y. <iy...@xe...>]

I followed the instructions at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/nventory/wiki/GettingStarted on a brand
new CentOS VM but when I try to start nVentory (whether as a daemon or not)
there is no proxy server for it to connect to.

[Fri Mar 23 22:52:53 2012] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP:
attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (localhost) failed
[Fri Mar 23 22:52:53 2012] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
worker for (localhost)
[Fri Mar 23 22:53:02 2012] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTPS:
attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:3000 (localhost) failed
[Fri Mar 23 22:53:02 2012] [error] ap_proxy_connect_backend disabling
worker for (localhost)
[Fri Mar 23 22:53:08 2012] [error] proxy: HTTP: disabled connection for
(localhost)
[Fri Mar 23 22:53:10 2012] [error] proxy: HTTP: disabled connection for
(localhost)

I don't see anything in the getting started guide about setting up the
proxy server except installing the gem.  Is there something I missed?