Re: inventory / configuration management tools
Tom Judge <[email protected]>
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Mathias Picker wrote:
> For configuration I'm using puppet and looking into controltier, I have
> not yet found a real use for inventory.
>
We use inventory for at least the following:
* Licensing Compliance
* Helpdesk data collection (what software/hardware etc a user has
installed)
* Automated data collection for our asset database
* One off reporting - e.g. find workstations with less that 1Gb ram
so that we can schedule upgrades for them.
* A feed back loop for our software deployment systems
* Role management server systems
* IP Space management and allocation
* Role based package deployment and management
* Other things that I can't remember off the top of my head...
It can be very useful when combined with a nagios, cacti, netdisco,
rancid, an asset database and an automation tool like puppet or cfengine.
Tom
> Am Dienstag, den 14.04.2009, 08:48 -0400 schrieb Dan Langille:
>
>> Are you using a configuration management tool? If so what?
>>
>> I don't mean a tool to manage /etc/rc.conf (for example).
>>
>> What I'm looking for is something to keep track of all the hardware,
>> where it's installed, mac addresses, etc. There has to be some kind
>> of API into it so we can plug utilize our existing processes,
>>
>> We are looking at http://onecmdb.org/ but I'm wondering about other options.
>>
>>
>
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