On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Nilesh Shah <nshah250(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
We want to evaluate CandlePin for following requirements
1) Managing in-house software licenses and subscriptions, its purchases,
entitlements, usage and any deviation.
1. Assuming you would use a client tool like subscription-manager to
register your end systems, and assign subscriptions to each of those
systems, this might make sense.
2) We currently manage this data in excel files. Need a way by which
we
can bulk upload this data to CandlePin
We expose a REST API, You would need to write your own tools/scripts to
create appropriate Subscription/Pool objects in Candlepin.
3) We need reporting capabilities to understand software license
usage,
expiring licenses and subscriptions
In theory Candlepin should be pretty good for this. We have a reporting
project underway known as "gutterball". This too will not have a UI, but
rather provides a REST API (again) which we will expose as part of
Katello/Satellite 6.
4) Some Misc features like, email notification if over usage, email
notifications for expiring software licenses etc...
We do not offer any email notifications but we do have an event system
which you could probably leverage to write a custom event handler that
would send emails.
Candlepin does not really currently support the concept of
over-consumption, we enforce a hard limit only today.
Along with CandlePin, we are also evaluating Kwok (
http://www.kwoksys.com/
)
However CandlePin looks more mature.
What we want to understand is,
1) While CandlePin does not have any UI, does Subscription manager is the
only UI/CLI for CandlePin? Are there any other UI applications for
CandlePin?
Subscription Manager is the only client side UI we know of. Candlepin is a
part of the Katello project which is a systems management webUI, and it's
supported Red Hat version, Satellite 6.
2) Does subscription manager provide all UI Capabilities? It means that
does it support above mentioned functionality what we are looking at?
Please consider emailing and reporting also here as mentioned above?
Subscription-manager is a client UI, it is for registering a client system
and then assigning subscriptions to it. It does not offer a UI for overview
of subscription usage, emails, or reporting.
3) While using CandlePin and subscription manager, if we need any support
in actual installation/deployment and use, do we get channelized support to
address the issues we are facing?
Candlepin is not an officially supported project by Red Hat, other than
within the context of the Satellite product. We can try to help via this
mailing list, bugzilla or github issues but there is no official support.
Cheers,
Devan
Can you please help us addressing above queries so that we can progress
our evaluation?
Thanks
Nilesh
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