Redmine Plugin Datacenter Wiki¶

French version here

With this plugin, you can manage your servers and applications, and link them to issues.

Download¶

The plugin can be downloaded at github :

Install¶

You can read first: http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Plugins

There are only 3 installation steps, it's very easy :

• download the latest version (or clone the repository at githu), and then put it in your vendor/plugins directory. If you have a doubt you put it at the good level, you can check you have a vendor/plugins/redmine_datacenter/init.rb file
• run the migrations with : rake db:migrate_plugins from the root of your redmine install
• restart your Redmine instance (depends on how you host it)

Features¶

It's better than standard Redmine Custom Fields because Servers and Applications are real objects, not just "flat" fields. For instance, these objects have a "status" : if you have an old server which is no more in use, you can de-activate it without deleting it. That way, issues linked to this server keep the reference, but it's not proposed anymore for new issues.

One other interesting thing. You often have many different versions or environments for one application. So in the plugin, applications have instances : maybe one for production, one for developers, another one for pre-production, etc. Each instance has one or many servers ; in a near future, the plugin will propose you those server when you select an application while creating or editing an issue. For the moment it's not the case.

Third party tools¶

The plugin supports third party tools integration, providing you run the development version or a 0.3+ version. You can find informations about how to synchronize here : ThirdPartyIntegration

Even with 0.2 branch, you can have Nagios integration :

Contribute¶

If you like this plugin, it's a good idea to contribute :

• by giving feed back on what is cool, what should be improved
• by reporting bugs : you can open issues here (you'll need an account)
• by forking it on github and sending pull request if you have a patch or a feature you want to implement