nVentory Alpha 1

nVentory software is a hardware and configuration inventory manager, that will eventually output XML files, which can be used to define configurations in other tools and processes (such as software builds, cfengine configuration, Nagios configuration etc).
An application designed to assist the datacenter manager answer the following questions:
- What servers do I have in my datacenter?
- What is the function of server y?
- Where is server x in the datacenter?
- Which customer(s) is assigned to server y?
- How much does server of type z cost?
- How much memory does server type z have?
- Which PDU does server x use, and which port(s)?
- Which switch and switch port does server z connect to?
- How many servers are in rack x?
- How many servers are in state "need repair"?
- How many servers are in state "ready to use"?
- and more..
Main features:
- Web based management interface, with AJAX elements, written in Ruby on Rails
- Visualization of rack space, showing used space and free space
- Designed specifically to help hosting companies manage datacenter typical assignment tasks
- Future: will generate XML configuration files to be used in code/application deployment
- Future: model complex inter-node relationships like MySQL Multi-master replication