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Network Inventory?

Kappo

Kappo

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Wasn't sure which forum to post this in since it hits networking, OS, and software all in the same thing...

So that time of year has come again for us, and I am looking for Network Inventory software to do the following:

The ones with * in front of them are VERY preferred but for the right software, can be given up.

*- Could provide a network map
*- Preferably does not need a client
*- Run either as a LAMP application or can run web-based
*- Access control groups to be able to add/update/view/generate reports via a web type console
- Can inventory Windows (NT, 2K, 2003, XP, Vista), Linux (Deb, RH, Suse), and Solaris (8&10 mostly)
- Be stored in a format that can be somewhat portable
- Have HTML or .PDF reports generated for either email or print

The only thing I have even really been looking at is Zenworks7, which looks pretty hot. Except that it is Novell. To say I hate Novell is a vast understatement.

What do you guys use for network inventory? I finally got it approved on our budget, so I can pay for it instead of NEEDing something free. The first rollout of this will be to about 200 windows machines and 150 mixed solaris and linux machines, but eventually it would go far far higher (1500 windows machines, 1100 solaris/linux machines). So scalability is a must.

The idea is that the techs will deploy the hardware after tagging it and adding it to the system. Then we can track where it is, and eventually be able to manage all of them remotely via a console of some sort.

Any help would be great! Not sure how MOM will work considering the mixed environment.
 
The de facto standard in the F/OSS world is OCSInventory, but I believe it requires a client (at least for Windows). There are many applications that use OCSInventory as a back-end for a web-based inventory management. I'm not sure if OCSInventory itself has everything you need for web-based management. If you search for OCSInventory on freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net, you'll probably get a few web frontends that use OCSInventory.
 
I use OCSInventory w/o any front end. I usually dump the data to Excel when management requests a count on certain things. I would be curious to hear what if any frontends people use, and to what end.
 
Yeah I just went ahead and googled it and found the homepage for OCSInventory NG and read through it. I see it does have it's own pretty full-featured frontend. I just know about it mostly because I come across apps for IT management or whatnot that have plugins for OCSInventory, such as GLPI.
 
What kind of inventory info are you looking for?

Device IP, OS? Open ports? Nbt Names? DNS Names?
Software (daemons) running?
Installed software?

How big a network? (approximate # of devices)
 
Eracent
Centennial Discovery
Altiris Asset Management
Microsoft SMS

amoung others....most of these require clients, as they query things such as software installed/software usage(metering), etc.
 
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