ralph 1.2.5

Added documentation for the discovery subsystem.

Added new Xeon processors support.

Added data_center and rack to the puppet classifier output.

Fixed DonPedro ‘ipaddress’ KeyError.

Disabled reboot plugin for the deployment.

Fixed XEN disk discovery.

Added property_types to the puppet classifier response.

Ralph search results are now unique.

Fixed border-case for lshw discovery when response tag is none.

Fixed OpenStack plugin - assigning costs to the wrong device

Bugfixes in discovery module.

Extended APIs for assets and pricing.

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.

Removed Git, hostname and stty process forking.

Cleaned up plugins chains.

Fixed pagination, templates and filters in the CMDB.

Fixed bug in the Catalog and Account areas.

API permissions fixed.

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.

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.

Editable layers in CMDB.

Bugfixes in discovery plugins and CMDB.

Performance improvements in CMDB report.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Fix bugs in the search and add device forms

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

Fixes for discovery regressions from 1.1.8

DiscoveryWarnings introduced

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

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

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

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

role properties available in API

virtual CPU count in the main ventures report

deprecated devices now have a zero monthly cost

cloud usage is visible in the main ventures report

several minor fixes in UI and new plugins

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

Price catalog updated: history of changes tracked, a more intuitive UI for prices per unit of size

bug fixes in discovery and UI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

initial release