[Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management

[Nathan C. Smith]

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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