[rt-users] Wishlist: Asset Tracker

[Todd Chapman]

Hi Francesc,

I am the original author of Asset Tracker (AT). There is a possibility
that a company will sponsor some development of AT soon. Even if that
does not happen there has been some work done to make AT easier to
install on RT 3.8.x that will be released sometime this summer.

All contributions on building the wiki are welcome.

http://code.google.com/p/asset-tracker-4rt/w/list

-Todd

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Francesc Guasch <frankie at etsetb.upc.edu> wrote:
> Hi. I've been using RT for many years in different places and I love it.
> Recently there has been a trend in the industry to add best practices in
> the IT department, like ITIL.
>
> One of the main ITIL recommendations is the usage of an inventory
> system, called CMDB ( Configuration management database ).
>
> Actually it looks like Asset Tracker ( or RTx::Asset::Tracker ?) can be
> used to store the CMDB so we are deploying it inside RT. The AT home
> page is almost blank and the last development is from around 2006, four
> years ago.
>
> Anyway it looks like AT works surprisingly nice and may it save the day.
> I've checked the mailing list archives and there could be some late
> fixes and even contributions from some paid developper.
>
> I know every organization is different, but I just have the feeling an
> inventory system is mandatory in many IT shops today.
> In my opinion RT should add the Asset Tracker code inside its codebase
> if it doesn't want to be left behind.
>
> This is my opinion and maybe I am the only one that thinks that way.
> I just don't know what's in the RT roadmap but I think it should be
> considered.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
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