What is the experience of using prophet, an open source research tool?

Open source research tools Prophet What is it for ？

Prophet It is a detailed collection tool for host information .

In many IT In the system construction project , Preliminary research and consultation is a very complex and time-consuming work , It's OK to meet cooperating customers , meet IT Enterprises with chaotic system management , Just passing the buck 、 Throwing the pot can force one 3 A month's project is made into a year's project . In the process , The usual method is to use Excel Let the user fill in , But what I didn't expect was , My carefully designed forms with examples were filled out as incredible “ Artwork ”. If even the basic information is not collected accurately , It can be imagined that the more such a project is done, the more difficult it is .

In the long-term research practice , We will sort out our research methodology , Gradually formed a relatively clear research gadgets , Solve the pain points in the consultation stage for a long time , that Prophet Open source is the first thing to share with you —— Host information detailed collection tool .

Simply speaking ,Prophet That is, the real information of the host , Collected by technical means Excel In the table , Reduce the risk of manual filling , Improve the efficiency of preliminary research and consultation .

Prophet Is it easy to use? ？

Prophet Has been in many large-scale project research , Including financial institutions 、 A large enterprise 、 Government and other projects , It has been fully verified , So you can use .

Prophet Why open source ？

After all, it is in the consultation stage that tools need to run in the user environment , It's better to be transparent and open .

Prophet How to get the source code ？

We have already Prophet The source code is also published to github And synchronize to domestic gitee On , You can get... In both ways .

For your convenience , We have automatically built the software into docker Mirror image , Convenient for offline use .

• Github Address ：https://github.com/Cloud-Discovery/prophet
• Gitee Address ：https://gitee.com/cloud-discovery/prophet

Prophet How to use ？

adopt Github Workflow We build the code into a container image , Easy to use . If it is used in China , You can use Alibaba cloud's source ：

docker pull registry.cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/oneprocloud-opensource/cloud-discovery-prophet:latest

Start the container

docker run -d -ti --name prophet registry.cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/oneprocloud-opensource/cloud-discovery-prophet:latest

Usage mode

docker exec -ti prophet bash

prophet-cli {scan,collect,report}

Prophet What are the main functions ？

• collection ： Get the number of surviving hosts in the LAN
• research ： Get the details of the host
• analysis ： Generate the required report

Prophet What else can we do in the future ？

Prophet The driver extension architecture is adopted , Gathering 、 analysis 、 Reports can add drivers to meet more needs . for example ： Yes OpenStack Environmental Research 、 Research on the use of resources by cloud platforms , Can be expanded .

Prophet What to do if you encounter problems in the process of use ？

Welcome to our development group , If you have any questions, you can go directly to github Submit on file issue.