[Cialug] ? Asset Inventory and Management

Josh More jmore at starmind.org
Mon Jul 7 15:45:44 CDT 2014


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'
>
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> 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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