rackmonkey roadmap
know your racks
The page is being updated in light of the release of RackMonkey 1.2.5
Introduction
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RackMonkey 1.2
Current stable release: 1.2.5 (released 2009-07-05)
RackMonkey 1.3
New features planned for 1.3.0:
- The ability to place items in the back and front of a rack
- The recording of power usage
- 1.5U devices (a common request for switches)
- Support for blades
- Warranty lookup for other suppliers such as HP and IBM (already implemented for Dell)
- Comprehensive unit tests for the RackMonkey engine
- Web view of audit log
- Recording of basic network information
Longer Term Aims
The aim is to incorporate the following features in later releases.
- More sophisticated rack layouts:
- Ability to specify air gaps and reserve parts of racks
- Ability to number racks with custom sequences from top or bottom
- Expanded device properties:
- Record switch/terminal/kvm/power ports
- Record network interfaces (IP/MAC addresses)
- Hardware configuration: CPU, RAM, storage...
- Ability to tag devices, apps and racks
- Working with other systems:
- Ability to bulk import data
- Generation of images of racks
- Fully documented API
- Wiki integration
- Integration with Zabbix
- Integration with Cacti
- Easier to use:
- More powerful search
- Simpler install on common operating systems
- Drag and drop in interface
- Pagination of large tables
- Command line tool (RackShell)
- Basic monitoring of device state
- User accounts with controls on what users can edit and see
