Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for)
-Mark
Why not setup a simple DB, or use a spread sheet... Open Office should have the tools you need....
john plemons
Mark Belanger wrote:
Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for)
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:46:05AM -0400, Mark Belanger enlightened us:
Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for)
OCS might be a little more than what you want, but is a possibility.
http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/
Matt
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Mark Belanger wrote:
Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for)
I use GLPI:
http://glpi-project.org/?lang=en
You can do software, contracts, licenses, suppliers, and contacts as well as all the hardware categories.
Regards, Max
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Max Hetrick wrote:
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Mark Belanger wrote:
Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for)
I use GLPI:
http://glpi-project.org/?lang=en
You can do software, contracts, licenses, suppliers, and contacts as well as all the hardware categories.
Someone else mentioned ocsinventory-ng (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), but to complete the picture, ocsinventory-ng includes agents for windows and linux that will automatically send each machine's hardware and software inventory to the server periodically and can be used to deploy packages so it is easier and more accurate than doing it by hand and will stay up to date. GLPI is a more completed and detailed inventory system that can handle more than PCs, but it knows how to pull the data from ocsinventory when you use both.
Both are available via yum from these repositories (needs EPEL too) http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2005/10/02/8-telechargement-installation-... and they work fine in English even though the developers are French.
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Les Mikesell wrote:
Someone else mentioned ocsinventory-ng (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), but to complete the picture, ocsinventory-ng includes agents for windows and linux that will automatically send each machine's hardware and software inventory to the server periodically and can be used to deploy packages so it is easier and more accurate than doing it by hand and will stay up to date. GLPI is a more completed and detailed inventory system that can handle more than PCs, but it knows how to pull the data from ocsinventory when you use both.
Thanks, Les. I totally forgot that you could integrate ocsinventory into GLPI. I've not used that portion, but I may pursue that in the near future since you just reminded me! :)
Regards, Max
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Max Hetrick wrote:
Someone else mentioned ocsinventory-ng (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/), but to complete the picture, ocsinventory-ng includes agents for windows and linux that will automatically send each machine's hardware and software inventory to the server periodically and can be used to deploy packages so it is easier and more accurate than doing it by hand and will stay up to date. GLPI is a more completed and detailed inventory system that can handle more than PCs, but it knows how to pull the data from ocsinventory when you use both.
Thanks, Les. I totally forgot that you could integrate ocsinventory into GLPI. I've not used that portion, but I may pursue that in the near future since you just reminded me! :)
I'm just starting to roll out the agent to a large number of machines. It reports a level of detail that would be difficult or impossible to maintain by hand, including things like the number of memory slots and their contents and the mac/ip addresses of all NICs, active or not.
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Les Mikesell wrote:
I'm just starting to roll out the agent to a large number of machines. It reports a level of detail that would be difficult or impossible to maintain by hand, including things like the number of memory slots and their contents and the mac/ip addresses of all NICs, active or not.
Cool. I remember playing a bit with ocsinventory about two years ago, but I never really stuck with making myself use it. I think I'll check into it again, especially if it's easy to pull data over into GLPI from it.
I really like the detail of GLPI, so that would be a perfect fit.
Max
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Max Hetrick wrote:
I'm just starting to roll out the agent to a large number of machines. It reports a level of detail that would be difficult or impossible to maintain by hand, including things like the number of memory slots and their contents and the mac/ip addresses of all NICs, active or not.
Cool. I remember playing a bit with ocsinventory about two years ago, but I never really stuck with making myself use it. I think I'll check into it again, especially if it's easy to pull data over into GLPI from it.
The current version is considerably nicer, and there is a new tool to remotely deploy the agents. I think it has to run under windows but it will deploy both the windows and linux agents using windows management protocol or ssh.
I really like the detail of GLPI, so that would be a perfect fit.
I'm sort of hoping to go one step further and extract data from the ocs or glpi databases into the pentaho tools for reporting and analysis (http://www.pentaho.com) but I don't have any experience with that yet.
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Les Mikesell wrote:
The current version is considerably nicer, and there is a new tool to remotely deploy the agents. I think it has to run under windows but it will deploy both the windows and linux agents using windows management protocol or ssh.
Wow, this works beautifully since the last time I played with it. I started rolling out clients in a test environment, and I'm very impressed.
I wonder how well GLPI handles duplicates? I have a lot of PCs, servers, and laptops hand typed in already. It might just be easier to delete them and let OCS report.
Again, thanks for providing the details on this, Les!
Regards, Max
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Mark Belanger wrote:
Can anyone recommend something for tracking assets particularly computer. I'm looking to capture: hostname OS/arch Hardware info(cpu, mem, etc) Function(i.e. what is the machine used for)
How much of this could you get done with Smolt / Func ? The s/w is available in the testing repo for centos4/5 at the moment..
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