On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 17:32 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > I thought I'd ask before reinventing the wheel... Can anyone > suggest an application for Linux that can track hardware inventory > across a network? I have several machines on our unix network and > things are starting to get out of control trying to figure out which has > what storage or memory or something as simple as, 'What OS does that > have again?' > > I've seen many different applications for Windows but they don't > know how to query a Linux box. maybe *sysreport* can help - a little bit - > So I'm asking for help here. Most of > the machines are running some FC version (1-5) and only two of them have > RH7.3 on them. (Imagine my surprise when I manually scanned the network > this afternoon...RH7.3?? Badly in need of an upgrade.) > > Anyway, I'd like to be able to have this beast track hardware on > each machine and possibly also what services they provide (though some > of that will have to be manually entered as some machines serve specific > services (for specific domains) while others don't.) If it can scan the > network and query each machine for data, that'd be a plus, however if > that's not possible, I'll make do. > > -- > W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> . 303.442.6410 x130 > IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > >
