Cephlon

This tool can only be used in the downstream tucson lab

Requesting Access

Requesting access to cephlon:

  1. Request a new snipe-it user and password. write down your desired username, e-mail address and public ssh key - File a ticket.
  2. After receiving your Snipe-IT user and password login to the Snipe-IT toolSnipe-IT.
  3. Go to manage API keys
  4. Click on “Create new”
  5. Choose a name of your choice, click on “Create new” and copy your API key to a safe place

  1. Clone the cephlon repo to your workstation.
  2. Run the ./bootstrap script (no sudo)
  3. In the root directory of your Cephlon clone, create a .config file or cp configs/.config.template .config and replace <your snipe-it api token> with your API token.
[api]
url = http://ceph25.ceph.tuc.ibm.com/api/v1/hardware
access_token = <your snipe-it api token>

Test that everything is configured correctly by running ./cephlon.py status

For more information on how to use cephlon you can checkout the readme file in the cephlon repo