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User Documentation
CMT can be used with different user interfaces:
- Web Interface
- An easy-to-use, self explainable, interface based on Django Admin. You only need a webbrowser to use this interface.
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- A less-easy-to-use interface which could be used to make mass-updates. The CLI offers the user some powerful functions which aren't possible on the web-interface. To use this interface you need to install CMT on the computer you're using.
Please keep in mind: Both interfaces are lacking of an undo-function, so be careful when you're about to make any changes in the data you've stored in CMT.
About the CMT data(structure)
Web-interface
The web-interface can be opened in any regular web-browser. Ask your administrator for its address. Once you open the web-interface, a login page should appear where you have to issue your credentials.
From there you'll be able to add objects to the database, lookup or change objects in the database, or delete objects from the database. It should be pretty intuitive to use. The most important entities you can act on are:
- Clusters
- A cluster could be described as a collection of hardware, connected to each other through one or more networks.
- Racks
- A rack is a cabinet that houses hardware like servers and switches. It has multiple slots to mount hardware. These slots identify the physical location of your hardware.
- Hardware
- Hardware units like (virtual) servers, switches, PDU's, etc. It could be 'any piece of hardware with a powercable attached to it'.
- Networks
- Networks defined by their (IP) address space. The addresses in the address space of a network each are related to an interface.
- Interfaces
- Network interfaces for input/output, thus any kind of card or (virtual) adapter which can have a network-cable plugged into it, and has a hardware address (like a MAC-address). Most obvious example is a regular 100/1000Mbit NIC, but it could be something like an InfiniBand? interface card, or an out-of-band management adapter. Many network interfaces are related to a single piece of hardware, and a single network.
