Cores is a new toolkit for managing the labs, incorporating inventory management and device booking. It is built on Python and Django.
- Inventory management - asset database for hosts, serial and asset support, location tracking, owner and group tracking. Integration with Livesync for last-seen times.
- Lab Booking - booking and reservation of machines, through self-service frontend. Reporting on utilisation, restrictions by group.
- Notices - quick noticeboard on the booking dashboard for users.
- Livesync - ingest of MAC/IP mappings with detection and alerting for IP address and location changes.
!!! question "Where next?" Get started setting up a copy with the admin guide or start booking things with the user guide.
This was developed over June/July 2019 to replace the existing booking system with something based on open technologies by Robert Phipps (_rphi) as a summer placement project.