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“System DataBase” (SysDB) is a multi-backend system management and inventory
- collection service. It may be used to (continuously) collect information
- about your systems from various backends (inventory services, monitoring
- services, etc.) and provides a unique interface to access the information
- independent of the active backends. This is done by storing and mapping the
- backend objects to generic objects and correlating the attributes to create
- a single hierarchical view of your infrastructure.
+ collection service. It stores system and inventory information about
+ hardware and software systems. This information is (continuously) collected
+ from various configurable backends (inventory services, monitoring services,
+ etc.) and stored in a graph-like hierarchy of generic objects. The store may
+ be queried through a generic interface independent of the active backends.
+ Object names are canonicalized before they are added to the store to ensure
+ a consistent view of your infrastructure.
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+ The central object type is a host, which generally represents a physical or
+ virtual machine or any other type of physical resource. Hosts, in turn, may
+ reference a list of services which represent any kind of logical resource
+ like a software system. Both, hosts and services, may reference a list of
+ attributes which represent further information about the respective host or
+ service object. For example, attributes may specify static information like
+ a host's architecture or the software version or reference performance data
+ like the current memory utilization or much more.
SysDB is free and open source software, licensed under the 2-clause BSD
license. See COPYING for details.