Last month I migrated Rails-CMDB over to Ruby Forge, however I did not get the chance to announce that it happened. Details of accessing via SVN can be found here.

There’s some small fixes now checked into SVN, but not enough to warrant a new release. I now plan to try and restart it’s development and may be even create mailing lists for development discussion and commit emails if there’s interest.

Following on from looking at PXE based installs earlier on in the week, I then moved on to looking at integrating dynamic DNS updates into DHCP (see this [article](http://www.debian -administration.org/articles/343) for more details), which is something else I’ve been meaning to look at for some time.

It does greatly simplify the setting of the hostname and domain name on a server when it’s been automatically installed with Debian pre-seeding or Red Hat’s kickstart over the network. This is because both build systems use the reverse DNS entry of the server’s IP
address during installations as its hostname.

I’ve never really managed to spend the time needed to have a good look at setting up an environment for installing Linux via PXE. However I finally managed to find the time earlier on this week, and so far I’m impressed. I’ve now got the start of a boot menu from which I can install Debian Etch, two different versions of Centos and most importantly the DHCP server co-exists on the same network as my cable router.

A view back along the path… by Jon Middleton, on Flickr

This is a shot back along the path towards St. Anthony’s Chapel in Holyrood park which was taken last weekend. Really pleased how it turned out, luckily my wife spotted the wonderful framing while I was facing in the other direction.

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB which has been updated to use Rails 2.0.2. It includes a number of other features which I had not gotten round to releasing. There’s more details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

Hopefully I’ll have the time to migrate the SVN repo to RubyForge sometime later on this month.

• 0.5.0 (2008-01-19)
  • Upgrade to Rails 2.0.2.
  • Fixes and general improvements for the upgrade to 2.0.2
  • Added the following plugin’s:
    • classic_pagination
    • will_paginate
• 0.4.7 (2007-12-12)
  • Add Location to environments Breakdown of models.
  • Re-order columns in environments Breakdown of devices.
  • Use Rails version 1.2.6.
• 0.4.6 (2007-12-02)
  • Do not display items with zero counts in the following Environments reports:
    • Breakdown of devices (counts).
    • Breakdown of models (counts).
• 0.4.5 (2007-12-02)
  • Added model breakdown report.
  • Add the following Environments reports:
    • Breakdown of devices (counts).
    • Breakdown of models (counts).

A View over Water by Jon Middleton, on Flickr

Over Xmas I took what I think is one of my best landscape photos.

The first full year of owning a dSLR and uploading photos to Flickr is now over; plus it’s six months since I started this blog. So a round up of stats for 2007:

• Photos taken - 1997
• Uploaded to Flickr - 212
• Photo stream views - 2,236
• Most viewed Flickr photo - York Minster for the Blind (152 views)
• Feedburner average subscribers - 9 (unknown via Wordpress.com)
• Readers on LJ

Finally a photo from a flash practice session this afternoon.

Untitled on Flicker by Jon Middleton, on Flickr

Happy New Year everyone,

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. T. S. Eliot

Untitled on Flickr

I’ve been away visiting my Mum over Xmas, and managed to get take some photo’s as well eating plenty of Turkey.

This one was taken from the car in a parking lay by just off the A1 heading south in the borders.

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB with some extra reports and behind the scenes improvements. Details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

• Add the following Operating Systems reports:
  • Breakdown of Operating Systems (counts).
  • Devices which are in sale Operating Systems.
  • Devices which are in support Operating Systems.
• Use a partial for the list of Operating Systems reports.
• Use partials for reports where possible.

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB with some reports. Details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

• Add Reports Controller module.
• Add the following Operating Systems reports:
  • Devices with end of sale Operating Systems.
  • Devices with end of support Operating Systems.
• Add tests for Reports controller.

I’ve released a new version of Rails-CMDB with some minor improvements. Details behind the cut, it can be downloaded from here.

• Added show by IP address.
• Re-factored ‘List by Network’ page.
• Cleanup the front page.
• Added routes for the following URLs
  • /show/device/:name
  • /show/hardware/:name
  • /show/ip_address/:name