[Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management

[Matt]

Maybe it's just that most Mozillians grew up in the 80s, when brontosaurus was the name in use.**  I have always preferred brontosaurus... I had a rather large brontosaurus toy dinosaur that was my favorite toy for a long time.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

** Mozilla's logo is a dinosaur, after all.

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> On Jul 7, 2014, at 11:57 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> google says:  "No results found for +mozilla +paleontologists"
> 
> maybe they've had to let their dino hunters go :-(
> 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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