Racktables is a robust open source web based solution for datacenter and server room asset management.
It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration and more.
It features a real-life rackspace model, typed rack objects with flexible attribute sets, a tagging system, IP address management ready for NAT, virtual routers and load balancers, accurate network connection handling, a universal search function, a multi-user access model, and an extensible dictionary.
Features include:
- List all of your devices.
- List all racks and enclosures.
- Mount the devices into the racks.
- Maintain physical ports of the devices and links between them.
- Manage IP addresses, assign them to the devices and group them into networks.
- Document your NAT rules.
- Describe your load balancing policy and store load balancing configuration.
- Attach files to various objects in the system.
- Create users, assign permissions and allow or deny any actions they can do.
- Label everything and everyone with flexible tagging system.
- IPAM (IPv4/IPv6 address management).
- Rackspace documentation.
- Full support of Unicode for user’s data.
- Tagging system.
- 802.1Q VLAN management.
- Permission control.
- CWDM and DWDM channel grids.
- Pluggable (SFP, XFP, XENPAK…) transceivers.
- Neighbor discovery via CDP and LLDP.
- Integration with Cacti and Munin.
Website: racktables.org
Support: Wiki, FAQ, Demo, SourceForge Project Page, GitHub
Developer: Alexey Andriyanov, Aaron Dummer, Denis Ovsienko and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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