[Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management

[jim kraai]

darn, might've changed, now it just offers brontosaurus


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> Have you looked at the spelling suggestions for: "apatosaurus" ?
>
> It's particularly amusing in Firefox.
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:41 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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