[Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management

[Scott Yates]

You might also check out http://www.spiceworks.com/

Fairly sure it will do what you want at the free level.


On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Nathan C. Smith <NSmith at hhlawpc.com> wrote:

> It isn't open source, but LANsweeper is good for this kind of thing, has
> nice reporting, and it isn't very expensive.  I'm surprised at how much
> information our Antivirus product tracks, you might see if yours is a
> wealth of data waiting to be mined.
>
> You might check out open-audit.  Last time I looked it had some setup
> requirements I found a little onerous.
>
> -Nate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of jim kraai
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 9:35 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management
>
> Dear Smart and Experienced Professionals;
>
> If I had servers (physical and virtual) in three data centers running a
> variety of OSs and wanted to do a partially automated inventory of my
> assets, network topology, services, configuration, etc., what would be a
> good open-source toolset to use?
>
> I know how I would have approached this ten years ago, but would like to
> know about more up-to-date tools.
>
> It's a requirement that the data be captured into some database capable of
> ad-hoc queries.
>
> It'd be even nicer if the data could be captured into something directly
> usable by a tool like Puppet so that servers could be  easily rebuilt or
> replicated.
>
> Other than spreadsheets, what are people using for ongoing inventory and
> management?
>
> Thank you,
>
> --jim
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