Ralph, the responsible leader of the children in `Lord of the Flies`.
Project description
Ralph is an asset management system for your data center. It lets you see what hardware and software is installed. It also lets you keep track of who is using every device, for what, and how much it costs.
Ralph’s database can be accessed through a web interface, a RESTful API and through command line tools, the most important of which is the discovery command, which lets Ralph gather information about your data center automatically. You can also export and import parts of the database into different formats.
Change Log
1.2.3
Released on June 7, 2013
Enhancements to the Ventures - added Profit Center and Business Segment information.
Added ability to import Ventures data(PC, Business Segment) from CSV file.
Added API integration with Ralph Pricing and Ralph Assets.
Fixed puppet classifier crashing on models without model group.
Fixed 3PAR detection.
Better error reporting for discovery errors.
PostgresSQL support provided.
Fixed hostname validation in the deployment area.
Testing profiles updated.
Fixed out of range error while discovering devices with unknown Networks.
1.2.2
Released on April 23, 2013
Removed Git, hostname and stty process forking.
Cleaned up plugins chains.
Fixed pagination, templates and filters in the CMDB.
1.2.1
Released on April 16, 2013
Fixed bug in the Catalog and Account areas.
API permissions fixed.
1.2.0
Released on April 15, 2013
Replaced Celery asynchronous worker engine with RQ, see: http://python-rq.org.
Introduced Ralph commandline tool - Beast, see: https://github.com/allegro/ralph_beast.
Introduced Offline Asset Mgmt module for Ralph, see: https://github.com/allegro/ralph_assets.
Discovery improvements: added Ganeti devices support, Juniper and Nortel switches, 3ware controllers. Added new Puppet REST integration.
Introduced discovery for Windows Sofware via Don-Pedro plugin and extended ability to search software versions using complex operators (<, <=, >, >= etc).
CMDB-Splunk integration introduced.
Reports are now asynchronous (don’t block the UI anymore, happen on the queue).
Added User Preferences framework - for now with the ability to change landing page per user.
REST API extended - new filters and new resources (owners).
Deployment improvements: statuses plugin fixed, duplicating networks added, firstfreeip function fixed.
Performance improvements in the CMDB.
Many Ralph UI bugs and discovery fixes.
1.1.18
Release on March 19, 2013
Added CMDB - Splunk integration.
Added archivization feature for CMDB.
Added Autoci feature for CMDB.
Improved jira integration.
Added ability to discover Windows software using don pedro plugin.
Discovery of hardware fixed and improved.
1.1.17
Released on February 19, 2013
Editable layers in CMDB.
Bugfixes in discovery plugins and CMDB.
Performance improvements in CMDB report.
1.1.16
Released on February 07, 2013
Adding next-server to DHCP configuration for devices in deployment.
A new report for device costs.
Improved CMDB impact report.
The ability to import DNS records from a CSV file.
Show separate count for physical devices in ventures report.
More bugfixes in the discovery plugins.
1.1.15
Released on January 16, 2013
Added custom DHCP configuration for networks and DHCP servers.
Networks can now be marked as non-unique, which prevents their IP addresses from being added to devices.
Next free hostname and IP address are now displayed in the Addresses tab.
Bugfixes in discovery plugins.
1.1.14
Released on January 07, 2013
Add detailed costs to the Ventures report,
Fix incorrect use of concurrent_get_or_create in discovery plugins
Fix the clean deployment plugin to re-connect the ip address
1.1.13
Released on December 31, 2012
Allow bulk deployment to re-use existing devices
Clean up the way in which the discovery plugins create components
Allow racks in different data centers to have the same name
1.1.12
Released on December 20, 2012.
Dell PowerEdge servers supported
introduced pricing groups for disk shares
interpolation of variables in preboot files supported
simplified deployment workflow (no issue tracked based acceptance involved)
mass deployment
discovery fixes
1.1.11
Released on December 5, 2012.
Fix bugs in the search and add device forms
1.1.10
Released on December 5, 2012.
support for SNMPv3 in discovery
DHCP config improvements: proper hostnames from PTR records; support for syncing entries and networks from a specific DC only
DNS/DHCP addresses tab redesigned for usability and performance
improved search for software components and discovering software versions
discovery fixes
1.1.9
Released on November 26, 2012.
Fixes for discovery regressions from 1.1.8
DiscoveryWarnings introduced
1.1.8
Released on November 22, 2012.
system-level storage detection stored in the OperatingSystem component
improved CPU information in DonPedro Windows agent
CPU information is stored in history for financial reports
DNS entries can be edited on the Addresses tab for every device
CMDB: impact report introduced, API for CI changes, layers and types
Installed software packages reported by Puppet are stored in the inventory database
Base64 support for compressed Puppet fact values
Minor bugfixes
1.1.7
Released on November 8, 2012.
Stability improved for discovering SSG firewalls
ralph_dhcp_agent.py is now compatible with Python 2.4
Uses the forked django-powerdns-dnssec package for improved PowerDNS support
Xen discovery support fixed (memory was reported in wrong units)
IPMI discovery improved for Sun and Supermicro servers
Minor CMDB improvements
Minor bugfixes
1.1.6
Released on October 29, 2012.
CMDB fixes: owners not required when saving a CI, cycles in relationships are detected, only manual changes generate tickets in external trackers
fixed issue #183: “Unknown” rack unsupported
device admin fixes: model validatation, saving uses priorities
paramiko library used for SSH connectivity instead of the ssh fork
minor device report fixes
unit tests improved
1.1.5
Released on October 19, 2012.
bumped Django version to 1.4.2
fixes order of database migrations
fixes a problem in Django 1.4.x with built-in unit tests failing because of settings used
minor CMDB fixes
more unit tests
1.1.4
Released on October 15, 2012.
role properties available in API
virtual CPU count in the main ventures report
deprecated devices now have a zero monthly cost
1.1.3
Released on October 10, 2012.
cloud usage is visible in the main ventures report
several minor fixes in UI and new plugins
1.1.2
Released on October 8, 2012.
Donpedro introduced: a new dedicated discovery agent for Windows. Works as a background Windows service; a lightweight alternative to SCCM
a new plugin to discover Xen hypervisors (with support for information about pools and hardware usage)
a new ssh_linux plugin that discovers Linux machines by logging into them; an alternative to Puppet storeconfig
lots of minor bugfixes in UI, CMDB and discovery
1.1.1
Released on September 24, 2012.
Price catalog updated: history of changes tracked, a more intuitive UI for prices per unit of size
bug fixes in discovery and UI
1.1.0
Released on September 19, 2012.
Deployment of new machines using PXE implemented
CMDB: change acceptance
DHCP can be served and reconfigured remotely
Improved reports: new report types for devices, main menu entry for generic reports, a details view for devices in reports
API supports throttling
A new component kind, OperatingSystem, with information about CPU, memory and disk storage visible from the operating system
Operating system components included in pricing
OpenStack pricing now includes pricing margins
Extra costs are now a dictionary
Improved date pickers in UI
1.0.6
Released on August 20, 2012.
Pricing: cached prices updated after changes in the catalog; component price calculation includes custom sizes when relevant
ralph commands no longer display the unhelpful “Error opening file for reading: Permission denied” message
Usability improvements in editing CI relations
Preliminary timeline view for CMDB added
Git configuration change from Puppet agent now knows if a change was successful
minor bugfixes
1.0.5
Released on August 13, 2012.
OpenStack plugin now accepts OPENSTACK_EXTRA_QUERIES setting, containing a list of tuples in the form (url, query) of additional data sources to check.
make the discovery plugins use soft delete
the proxmox discovery plugin now counts local storage used
added a “delete” link in the addresses view
positions in racks are now numbered from the bottom
CMDB: enabled removing relations, faster git handling
bugfixes in CMDB and UI code
1.0.4
Released on August 08, 2012.
edit links for devices and components
soft-deletable devices
a view showing physical layout of racks
add a filter form in the networks view
small usability improvements in the history user interface
added a “zabbixregister” command for automatically creating hosts and host templates in Zabbix
bugfixes in the CMDB
bugfixes in the discovery plugins
1.0.3
Released on August 01, 2012.
a rudimentary reports tab on device lists to filter devices according to specified rules
venture tree collapsible
CMDB integration scripts integrated into framework
CMDB supports distributed plugins
minor fixes in the Web app
1.0.2
Released on July 23, 2012.
ralph chains command to list available plug-in chains
fixed regression from 1.0.1: settings-local.py works correctly again
ability to create new devices from the web application
several minor bugfixes
added cmdb charts for dashboard
1.0.1
Released on July 18, 2012.
ralph management command introduced as a shortcut to python manage.py
ralph makeconf management command introduced to create configuration from a template
PyPI package fixed by including all resources in the source package
minor fixes for the SQLite backend
minor documentation fixes and updates
1.0.0
Released on July 16, 2012.
initial release
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