Looking for (preferably free) IT data center inventory apps.
November 12, 2007 1:41 PM Subscribe
Looking for [ IT | data center ] inventory software. Ideally it will track all types of hardware imaginable, from the server room, to the desktop, to the mobile warrior. Cheap is good, free is better.
Response by poster: Sorry, did I need to qualify my question with "A search for data center inventory software yielded this but its 18 months old"?
k8t, care to provide some other examples?
posted by neilkod at 2:04 PM on November 12, 2007
k8t, care to provide some other examples?
posted by neilkod at 2:04 PM on November 12, 2007
Are you talking about asset tracking or autodiscovery?
posted by GuyZero at 2:17 PM on November 12, 2007
posted by GuyZero at 2:17 PM on November 12, 2007
Response by poster: Thanks for clarifying(?) GuyZero - Asset tracking should suffice but autodiscovery sounds pretty darn cool too!
posted by neilkod at 2:28 PM on November 12, 2007
posted by neilkod at 2:28 PM on November 12, 2007
There are autodiscovery products for servers in datacenters, but these products rarely do generic asset tracking.
I have never used it, but this seem cheap and meets the requriements.
posted by GuyZero at 2:55 PM on November 12, 2007
I have never used it, but this seem cheap and meets the requriements.
posted by GuyZero at 2:55 PM on November 12, 2007
Spiceworks is targeted towards autodiscovery. It's free because it's financial income comes chiefly from working on an advertisement model. I haven't had much luck with it, but some people have. It discovers everything with an IP address well enough, but it has rarely has any clue what it discovered.
I've also tried Zenoss Core some. Though I haven't devoted enough time to see how well it works, it seemed a lot more powerful than SpiceWorks. It's packaged for linux, but there's a working VMWare package to try it out on.
Both products work from a web GUI interface so you can access it from any computer.
posted by jmd82 at 3:18 PM on November 12, 2007
I've also tried Zenoss Core some. Though I haven't devoted enough time to see how well it works, it seemed a lot more powerful than SpiceWorks. It's packaged for linux, but there's a working VMWare package to try it out on.
Both products work from a web GUI interface so you can access it from any computer.
posted by jmd82 at 3:18 PM on November 12, 2007
Have you tried Data Center Audit from azazia (azazia.com)
So I don't get in trouble for talking about what we use, let me just say I work at a 'major storage area network' hardware and software company that starts with an "H" :-) and we use it for managing our testing data center. It was easy to get pushed thru management because it wasn't ridiculously expensive like other apps out there. Plus our test lab environment is so dynamic that we couldn't afford to have agent based software, and none of our other developers trusted auto-discovery apps. So yeah it is manual entry, but it works for us and I like it because its pretty simple and NOT Java based! Can you tell I'm not a fan of java?
Besides, being a UNIX guy who poses as a software developer, I like the fact that it is web based and will run on Linux/UNIX and Windoze. What I like about it is that I can throw it on a laptop and I use it for site audits when I am sent out to customer sites and I need to perform a quick site audit or make a SAN diagram. I can export all views data into CSVs. Us UNIX folk tend to like the ability to export data to CSVs so we can perl or bash the data to death.
Anyway, that's my 'echo.'
:wq!ben
posted by magic8ball at 1:08 PM on February 2, 2008
So I don't get in trouble for talking about what we use, let me just say I work at a 'major storage area network' hardware and software company that starts with an "H" :-) and we use it for managing our testing data center. It was easy to get pushed thru management because it wasn't ridiculously expensive like other apps out there. Plus our test lab environment is so dynamic that we couldn't afford to have agent based software, and none of our other developers trusted auto-discovery apps. So yeah it is manual entry, but it works for us and I like it because its pretty simple and NOT Java based! Can you tell I'm not a fan of java?
Besides, being a UNIX guy who poses as a software developer, I like the fact that it is web based and will run on Linux/UNIX and Windoze. What I like about it is that I can throw it on a laptop and I use it for site audits when I am sent out to customer sites and I need to perform a quick site audit or make a SAN diagram. I can export all views data into CSVs. Us UNIX folk tend to like the ability to export data to CSVs so we can perl or bash the data to death.
Anyway, that's my 'echo.'
:wq!ben
posted by magic8ball at 1:08 PM on February 2, 2008
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Free To boot!
posted by keep it tight at 1:43 PM on November 12, 2007