and not a single screenshot in the readme
edit: oh its only on the website
Shelf – open-source asset management software
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Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software
#32Unfortunately, both shelf and snipe are limited asset management systems that do not cover the broader asset management situations and issues. Having worked in asset management at one time, the field has some quite difficult aspects that are often missed by these relatively simple systems. I am not disparaging what either of these systems do. There is a lot of time and effort that has been put into them. However, ful…
Agreed, asset management isn't only about knowing and tracking what the business possesses. A good system 1. Separates, but inter-connect the Asssets and CI. An asset will never change during its lifecycle. A CI is the actual configuration(s) of an asset. It could be a simple laptop (asset) with a standard OS (CI, one-to-one relationship), or it could be a server (asset) with multiple virtual machines (CI, one-to-man…
These are fantastic insights!
I'm aware of Snipe-IT, but could you recommend any other open-source solutions?
I have a hunch that the scope and requirements of such software are often tailored exclusively to enterprises, which only comes with a price tag.
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#33What do you guys use for managing digital assets, and by that I mean what software is installed where, what usernames/passwords are required for operating (databases, 3rd party API, etc), which versions, etc?
Those are notes in my big digital notebook (currently managed by Obsidian)
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#34Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.
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#35Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.
maybe grocy
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#36Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.
As anyone who has done inventory management could tell you, the admin involved in keeping your pantry inventory up to date would massively outweigh any utility you'd get from this.
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#38Is there something like this but for “home” usecases? What’s in my pantry, how much of y do I have left in my medicine cabinet, etc.
As anyone who has done inventory management could tell you, the admin involved in keeping your pantry inventory up to date would massively outweigh any utility you'd get from this.
Maybe it could be worth it for only some items that you always forget to use before they expire. or if it's for saving money by waiting for stuff to get on sale, maybe only for items that are really worth it.
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#40Seems interesting. It would be nice if a user could record maintenance events. For example: rotate tires, change oil. Also, I would like to upload user manuals - not just hyperlinks.
Request Tracker is an older ticket system that also does asset management and can associate tickets with assets.
It can be rather tedious to configure, as I recall, but it can do almost whatever you want. Hope you know some perl. Have not used it in at least 5 years.