Configuration Management Database Puns

Curious to see how others have tackled the often-talked-about but amorphous configuration management database (CMDB). What solution does your company use (Excel, COTS, sticky notes...) and is it actually up to date and useful, or collecting dust?

https://www.if4it.com/understanding-configuration-management-databases-cmdb/

I thought this could be useful.

Hi guys and gals,

for a work project I'm trying to figure out what's a good way to handle different configurations / environments in .NET Core projects.

The default you get when you scaffold an app is the usage of different appSettings.<ENV>.json files per environment. That's currently what we are still using.

However as the app grew and many different other apps were created and other tenants were added in the ecosystem it has become increasingly difficult to manage all of this through the appSettings files. On top of that we are hosting the apps inside of Azure App Service where we manage some environment variables inside the configuration section.

A main problem for us is, that we have different "configuration blocks" that are shared between the same environment and tenant for different applications, e.g. we have 4 applications which all have this configuration:

"Storage": {
    "ConnectionString": "...",
    "Containers": {
       "images": "xyz-images",
       "files": "xyz-files"
    }
}

As you can see, we have to be extremly careful when changing these shared configurations since it's easy to miss one.

We already had a look at Azure App Configuration but this just seems to be slightly better alternative to the "Configuration" section inside the App Service because every value need to be provided as Key-Value pairs. (The other features that it provides are nice to have but not really important to us)

So my question is, is there a good way of handling all these configuration things, preferably a (even paid) service which integrates well into .NET Core?

Ok, I've been looking at things all day trying to wrap my head around this.
I have not found 1 resource out there that talks about creating a brand new Database/Configuration to use in Revit.

I just completed 2 courses in Revit and I was looking at practicing at home waiting for new classes to start. I wanted to start my own database/ Configuration that contains the mechanical/plumbing services with manufacturer specific parts.

Right now I have the Charlotte PVC DWV pipe and fitting .rfa files, but have no idea on how to create the database/configuration using those.

I have CadMEP installed also and can open my database I copied from Imperial content, but editing it isn't making any sense either. Where are the Service groups getting pulled from? How do you add a part to the existing part pool under a specific group?

I wanted to start from scratch so I can learn the steps from the ground up. But man, resources are very limited for this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello all, I have a potentially simple issue to resolve.

We recently ordered some SonicWall switches since Fortinet switches were not available at the time.

Setup is fairly simple, WE have 6 VLANs, one of which is out primary VLAN for employee connections. VLAN 10 is on the 10.176.10.0/24 subnet, where our FortiGate 61F is providing the DHCP service. When I plug a computer into a VLAN10 port, I get the IP on that subnet, but cannot connect to the VLAN IP set on the SonicWall switch via internet browser (https://10.176.10.2).

When I plug back into another port to connect to our default subnet (10.176.240.0/24) on the FortiGate "hardware switch", I can connect to the switch via https://10.176.240.2.

We are simply trying to have the switches Web GUI accessible from the VLAN 10 network. (without opening routing policies between networks on the firewall)

Pertinent information:

Switch model: SonicWall SWS14-24FPOE

Switch Firmware: v1.1.0.1-13

Firewall model: ForitGate 61F

Firewall Firmware: 6.4.8

https://preview.redd.it/m7kv0d5wr3b81.png?width=535&format=png&auto=webp&s=5dfa244e8e28e0541aa27a6dc1a0ca27e00a88c0

Hi Everyone!

When I was a newbie in programming, I was(or I should say I am) very much afraid of learning and using SQL as it involved so much knowledge of syntax and structure with which it works and the worst part was to use jquery, establish a driver connection with JDBMS and wait till I start imagining to breake the system with some hammer.

Putting it aside :-| ...

I always wanted a code integrated system like we have the java swing api as it does not requires any installation or something.

Later I realized that it was not the only way to store and read data,

• Files are the actual building blocks of data storage.

Then, I started testing several implementation of a custom database management system that

• Does not requires any installation or configuration

and can

• Easily be implanted in an application.
• Have Highly Human Friendly Structure.
• Use Code to access and write data.
• Modifiable just by editing its sources (flexible).
• Hackable i.e can be edited just by a text editor.
• Making the programmer be in comfort of its language.
• Seamless integration with the programming language.

So, here bornt the dynamic-database

https://github.com/sheepduke/chameleon

Chameleon is a configuration management library shipped with profile support. It can help you:

1. Define configuration items with default value.
2. Define profiles reflecting different scenarios, e.g. development, testing, production etc.
3. Switch between several profiles just like a chameleon switching its colors!
4. Access configuration item via functions (instead of bare-bone keywords or strings) to avoid invalid names.
5. Extend its behavior by providing :before, :around or :after methods.

I wrote this library 3 years ago. Recently I got some time to work on it and refined the generated code. Compared with the v1 version, it does:

1. Re-implement the logic with CLOS (instead of hash table) and refined generated code.
2. Generate variable *profile* to store current profile.
3. Generate function switch-profile for switching profile.
4. Stop generating active-profile and profiles.

Any comment/feedback/idea/perspective is welcomed!

And thanks @svetlyak40wt for his feedback!

P.S. The version in Quicklisp might still be old, Ultralisp should be good.

I created a new domain user that was just a copy from the original user. The orginial user can open the configuration manager fine, but the new user cannot. I did grab the log but i am not sure what it is trying to tell me. Can anyone give me some pointers on it?

here is the error message it is throwing in the admin ui log:

Description = "Error retrieving object CollectionID=SMSDM003";

ErrorCode = 2151811598;

File = "e:\\\\qfe\\\\nts\\\\sms\\\\siteserver\\\\sdk\_provider\\\\smsprov\\\\SspInterface.h";

Line = 1198;

Operation = "GetObject";

ParameterInfo = "SMS\_CollectionSettings.CollectionID=\\"SMSDM003\\"";

ProviderName = "ExtnProv";

StatusCode = 2147749890;

Hello everyone, I am new to creating database and I am creating new database for an event management system.

Constraints are

• 1 Event can have many datetimes (sort of like a 3-day show where you play once a day)
• 1 datetime can have many event section as a seat for users to sit.
• 1 section can have many seats.

I have come up with something that looks like this. image link My question is, should I add in the event_id key to all the table that descends from events table? does that break any rules? if it does, is there any approach you would suggest? thank you very much for the help. If you need more details please leave a comment.

Hey there, I'm starting to develop a management simulation game where I need to deal with thousands of objects in a database-style where players can search and manipulate those objects as much as they want. Since I have no experience in databases outside of using SQLite for small projects, I'm a bit overwhelmed with the possibilities. Relational or NoSql? In-memory for gameplay and filebased for saves?

Maybe someone can lend me a hand and share some information. Thanks in advance :)

https://blog.saeloun.com/2021/10/27/rails-7-adds-database-specific-setup

Does anyone know of an app / website / program (doesn’t have to be free) that you can use to not only keep an inventory of items like appliances and power tools but also store a pdf if the associated manuals for that item? Syncing between iOS, web, and PC would be amazing but lack of that isn’t a deal breaker. There are plenty of apps that sync but the ones that I’ve seen are basically just a database even if some of them let you store a picture of the item as well. Having the ability to store a pdf with the item information and specs is really what I’m looking for. Thanks in advance.

It might be handy to have a database for various configurations so we can compare cooling performance:

System: AMD Ryzen 5600X | EVGA 3080FTW3 Ultra | EK 240 AIO Basic with 2 Noctua NF-A12x15

Ambient: 21C | Idle CPU: 56C / Idle GPU: 59C | Load CPU: 74C / Load GPU: 72C (for load testing, I played New World @ Very High settings)

https://blog.saeloun.com/2021/10/27/rails-7-adds-database-specific-setup

https://blog.saeloun.com/2021/10/27/rails-7-adds-database-specific-setup