Update on Assimilation Project: Neo4j Server Schema
From the post:
In his latest blog post, Alan Robertson makes a bold move by building a Neo4j – a schemaless graph database – schema server for his Assimilation Monitoring Project which is a comprehensive monitoring of systems and services for networks of potentially unlimited size.
For the schema, Robertson outlines the basic entities: Servers, NICs and IP addresses which indexes of servers names, MAC addresses and IP addresses. The power in using a graph is the ability to define the relationships between the various entities such as NIC owner, IP Owner, IP Host and Primary IP.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t that sound a lot like the topic map that Robert Barta was running when he was down under?
I don’t have the reference within easy reach so if you can post it as a comment I would appreciate it.