Resource Allocation Software?

[Barry Margolin <Think.COM">barmar]

We use Sun's Calendar Manager here.  We create an account for each
resource, su to the account, create a calendar, and give the world
browse/insert/delete permission.  We do this for testbed systems and loaner
powerbooks, and will soon be using it for conference rooms.  If someone
wants to see whether a powerbook is available, for instance, the
Multi-Browse facility can be used to select all the powerbook calendars
simultaneously.

We don't currently use an automated system to let sysadmin know what
requests have been made.  But a cron job that mails the output of cm_lookup
could be used.

There's no waiting list mechanism.

I suspect other online scheduling systems beside Sun's CM could be used.
It had the advantage that it was bundled with SunOS.