[Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management

[Josh More]

That's what's funny.  The brontosaurus was renamed to "apatosaurus"
and the conservative paleontologists at Mozilla want to move us back
more than 100 years.

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:31 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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