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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:54:04 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: database or overview about servers
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, m.apitz@oclcpica.org wrote:

> I was asked by management to put information about all our servers
> (OS release, machine type, disk space, RAM space, installed databases,
> development tools, ...) into somehow an regulary updated overview,
> perhaps based on a database or XML files (we are speaking about
> less than hundred systems, most of them UNIX types, some XP).
>
> It would also be nice if some of the above mentioned information is
> updated automatically by fetching them over night across the network
> with some kind of scripts (for example OS, disk and RAM). At least
> the presentation should be done in HTML.

Nagios may do what you want:

/usr/ports/net-mgmt/nagios

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA