Re: inventory / configuration management tools
Dan Langille <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Tom Judge <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> > > Hi Dan, > > We use OCS-Inventory NG, it works reasonably well and supports most OS's. For the archives: the inventory system makes use of an agent to obtain details such as RAM, HDD, etc. The system also contains a package deployment solution. The agent seems to run on a wide variety of systems. It reminded me of Nagios and its nrpe. I don't see the ability to collect assets into racks, figure out what ports on box A are connected to what ports on box B. Not to diminish the capabilities of the system, this seems like a very good solution for administering an office network. It does not seem to have anyway to group systems into racks. For us, this is a key requirement. > There is an API for it and it integrates with the helpdesk system that we > chose for our internal helpdesk (GLPI). > > Not sure if this is quite what you are looking for, but it will automate > the data collection part for you. That looked very powerful. Thank you. -- Dan Langille myYearbook.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"