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[[!meta title="cinv - the Swiss Army Knife for inventory management"]]
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[[!toc levels=3]]
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## Preamble
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Cinv was formerly known under name the of **sexy**.
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## Introduction
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Cinv is the Swiss Army Knife for inventory management.
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It allows you to manage hosts and network with a simple command
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line interface.
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Cinv stores inventory information in a **cconfig database** and
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adapts to your environment by supporting custom backends.
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In short, cinv can create and remove hosts and configure networks -
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depending on your backend this means:
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* cinv manages Virtual Machines
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* cinv generates IPv4 address allocation (DHCP)
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* cinv sets up your domain name system (DNS)
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## Status
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The release process for cinv version 2.0 has started and is planned
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to happen in November 2012.
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## Installation
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Download cinv from git ([gitweb](http://git.schottelius.org/?p=cinv;a=summary)):
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% git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cinv
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Afterwards ensure that the **bin** directory is in your PATH and that you have python3
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installed:
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% which python3
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/usr/bin/python3
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% cd cinv
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% export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd -P)/bin
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Now you should be able to display the current cinv version:
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% cinv -V
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cinv 1.9.11-1-g837532c
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### Mirrors
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* git://github.com/telmich/cinv.git ([github](https://github.com/telmich/cinv))
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## Support
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### IRC
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You can join the development ***IRC channel***
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[#cstar on irc.freenode.net](irc://irc.freenode.org/#cstar).
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[[!tag cinv unix]]
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