[Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management

[jim kraai]

cool, thank you, i've passed that on to the decider

it makes me sad that google spell-check doesn't know 'ansible'



On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:34 AM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
>
> You know, I swear I asked this question about a year ago, here on the
> CIALUG list.  But my search-fu fails me.
>
> I just discovered this: Ansible comes with modules called facter and ohai
> that do remote inventory scans.
>
>    * http://docs.ansible.com/facter_module.html
>    * http://puppetlabs.com/facter
>
>    * http://docs.ansible.com/ohai_module.html
>    * http://docs.opscode.com/ohai.html
>
> Puppet and Chef are cross-platform, and Ansible intends to be RSN.
>
> --
> Todd
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