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Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Post by Daviey »

canadianfella wrote: post #62
Daviey wrote: post #5

Visually, it looks GREAT. Thanks for sharing this. I do care more about the feature set than the UI tho', so I have some questions. AM to me is the foundational part of any security management. I care about 3 main things: 1) API support (for custom tooling) 2) Integration with other tools (Jira, Salesforce, etc) 3) Relationships/Dependencies with other assets (to determine the blast radius if there is an incident, or…

> Assets are more than just devices, are these catered for? What does that mean?

Each organisation has a different interpretation, with some being as broad as anything which has an owner and would have an impact to the business if confidentiality, integrity or availability of the asset is affected.

However, the best definitions typically come from NIST which, as a non-US resident, I still recognise are leaders in this space.

https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/asset

Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Post by trog »

ticoombs wrote: post #68
trog wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this recommendation. Been looking at asset management systems so Shelf caught my eye but the install process looks too painful, whereas this one I can just drop easily onto an existing LAMP server.

Pay them to host it. $400/year. Literally a rounding error. Works out cheaper than a cloud compute and SQL server

I have a $6/mo VPS on which I think I can run Snipe quite happily. I get that some people are OK to pay significantly more for services like this but I have the resources and interest in self-hosting to make it worthwhile.

Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Post by CarlosVirreira »

sdesol wrote: post #69
rapnie wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I may provide a bit of feedback: Provide more background about GitSense. Who is behind it, what is the privacy policy. Things like that.

Thanks. DevBoard just came out of stealth mode, but there are still things that need to be done, like those that you pointed out.

Devboard looks nice, congrats!

Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Post by CarlosVirreira »

viraptor wrote: post #6

This looks great - I was looking for something like this and other solutions are split into pretty much a) way too expensive for a small business using it casually b) very basic systems without mobile support. Ended up just using Airtable directly with the mobile app - not amazing, but also not bad at all. One thing I couldn't figure out from the website/GitHub - can I attach more than one image to the item? For exam…

We are planning on improving the UX of our comment module, so you can drag images or upload images as a GitHub comment on your asset page.

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Post by FredPret »

zie wrote: post #60

I guess I'm old and boring. I have a storage.txt file that just has a box#(literally written on the box/object) and then a description, tab seperated. That's the entirety of my inventory management. Searching through the text file is easy peasy.

Text files are massively underrated

Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software

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Post by deckar01 »

CarlosVirreira wrote: post #76
deckar01 wrote: post #30

Replacing QR stickers with a visual tagging model seems like it could reduce the friction of data entry dramatically.

Could you tell me more? I do not know much about visual tagging model.

It should be possible to use the vector embeddings produced by an image to text (AI) model as database identifiers. The text tags produced by this type of embedding could replace most human metadata entry required for object registration with AI suggested metadata and human approval.
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