RackMonkey 1.2.4 Documentation
RackMonkey 1.2.4 Documentation Index
RackMonkey Version 1.2.4
©2004-2008 Will Green (wgreen at users.sourceforge.net)
Licensed under the GNU Public Licence v2.
v1.2.4 - Released 2008-07-20
- Minor tweaks to documentation
v1.2.4 RC1 - Released 2008-07-07
- Added edit buttons to table views to make editing faster
- Replaced tick character with checkbox as IE cannot render tick marks
- Fixed a number of errors in the markup of templates: all pages now validate with the W3C validator again
- Sorting now works properly in search results
- Improved the included sample data and added standard test data
- Report now includes total size used for different device types
- Made returning to an edit view after adding an item work as expected, e.g. adding a new building while creating a room
- Showing and hiding of domain in device table views now works and the setting is saved in a cookie
- Many documentation improvements
- Tested on Firefox 3
v1.2.4 Preview 2 - Released 2008-05-18
- Improved install and upgrade documentation (added MySQL instructions)
- Added age to device search results and asset info to unracked device view
- Sorting and filtering now work in unracked device view
- Added improved error messages for many situations
- Restructured code: configuration is now part of Engine and Helper module has been dropped. Methods are no longer exported from any modules
- Added ability to hide domains in device table views (setting doesn't yet stick, but will do in a later release)
- System information is now included in error reports and config view.
- Made configuration system more robust
- Extensive testing of MySQL support on MySQL 5.0.51b
- Tightened up foreign key constraints in Postgres/MySQL to prevent NULL values
- Fixed two bugs with validation which prevented the creation of racks
- Fixed a bug when creating a room during a rack creation
- Fixed a bug when creating a room when no buildings exist
- Fixed rack copying so it now behaves as expected
- Fixed a bug in the validation of descriptions for roles and service levels
- Many other minor bug fixes and improvements
v1.2.4 Preview - Released 2008-05-06
- Improved interface
- Device search
- Device and Rack copying
- Filtering of Device view
- Experimental MySQL 5 support
- Officially supports Postgres 7.4
- Support for Safari 3
- Beginning of much improved Help section
- Fixed a bug in the calculation of rack space used
- Now checks for supported DBI version when using Postgres
- Many other minor changes, see the svn log for further information
v1.2.3 - Released 2007-07-25
- First beta release of v1.2
- Made rack physical view more compact and usable (47U rack fits in 1280x1024)
- If a user is logged in as guest they can't edit entries (see userdoc.txt)
- Added querying of Dell server spec and warranty based on service tag
- Added ability to view device in rack from device list view and highlighted it within the rack.
- Added device count and free space to rack table view
- Added official support for IE7 and improved look in IE6
- Extended report to include roles and operating system
- Sorting and filtering work properly in device list views
- Added trimming of white space from start and end of submitted values
- Fixed a bug in the asset and extended templates which prevented asset and serial numbers from being viewed.
- Fixed a bug with sorting serial and asset numbers in device views
- Fixed bug which allowed two >1U servers to overlap in some circumstances
- Added check to ensure rack resize doesn't affect rack contents
- Many other minor changes, see the svn log for further information
v1.2.2-1 - Released 2007-06-22
- Fixed issue when using v1.2.2 with Postgres. SQLite users are not affected.
v1.2.2 - Released 2007-06-21
- Added support for operating system versions.
- Added ability to perform basic filtering of devices in default views.
- Added basic view of unracked devices.
- Added alternating row colours to default (table) views.
- Added basic help content to help view.
- Added a basic reporting view (this will be expanded in later releases).
- Added applications view (though attaching applications to devices is not yet supported in this release).
- Note section is hidden to reduce clutter if there aren't any notes.
- Fixed a bug preventing the creation of 1 U racks.
- Fixed the location of the 'New' button in device default views in IE 6.
v1.2.1 - Released 2007-05-18
First release of v1.2. Complete rewrite with much improved engine and features. This release is alpha quality and has a number of issues. See the README file for more information.
v1.1-1 - Released 2005-12-04
First full public release, hosted on Soureforge.
v1.0 - Not officially released
Initial experimentation with SQLite backend in 2004.
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