From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 21 12:47:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8E6106564A for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dlangille@myyearbook.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f105.google.com (mail-qy0-f105.google.com [209.85.221.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C09678FC0A for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:47:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dlangille@myyearbook.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so1829824qyk.3 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:47:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.19.141 with SMTP id a13mr7540560qab.60.1240318030361; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:47:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49E4A4EA.7090809@tomjudge.com> References: <6dd019370904140548n783825f6ub53c205dfd152689@mail.gmail.com> <49E4A4EA.7090809@tomjudge.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:47:10 -0400 Message-ID: <6dd019370904210547y16584b4dx2eaee36a43842be1@mail.gmail.com> From: Dan Langille To: Tom Judge Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inventory / configuration management tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:47:13 -0000 On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Tom Judge wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> >> Are you using a configuration management tool? =A0If 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. =A0There 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, =A0it 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, =A0but it will automa= te > the data collection part for you. That looked very powerful. Thank you. --=20 Dan Langille myYearbook.com