Spacewalk is a nice thought, but (last I looked) only works for CentOS/RHEL. And I'm not sure if we could have our systems registered with both RHN and a Spacewalk instance. We also have some Ubuntu Server systems, and Mac OS X Server as well, so we ideally need something platform-independent.<br>
<br>I'm going to take a look at OCS Inventory... might just be what we need.<br><br>David<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Spacewalk is the community version of RHEL's tool "satellite server". It does what you want. Tracks systems, hardware and software, versionning, deployment, updates, reporting, etc. Current downside is it requires Oracle but Postgresql is in the works. It may be ready (with Pg) as I haven't looked at it in a while.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Dylan Northrup <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docx@io.com" target="_blank">docx@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A long time ago, (04.03.10), in a galaxy far, far away, David Tomaschik wrote:<br>
<br>
:=TBH, I'm not even sure what to call this one. I'm looking for a web-based<br>
<div>:=app that will let my department keep better track of our servers. Right<br>
:=now, our documentation on updates, installed versions, configuration,<br>
:=hardware specs, etc. is pretty spotty. I'm looking for something that will<br>
:=let us keep that in one place and pull reports based on almost any criteria<br>
:=(Memory in system, kernel version, IP address, mac address, etc. all come to<br>
:=mind.) We need a way to document when updates are performed, when<br>
:=configuration is changed, etc. Does anyone know of a tool to help us keep<br>
:=such documentation? For those of you who admin multiple servers, what is<br>
:=your practice?<br>
<br>
</div>A commercial product for doing what you want to do is Opsware. I'm sure you<br>
could add some hooks into cfengine, puppet, et. al to do updates to a<br>
central DB when they do their machine probes. I haven't gone through the<br>
exercise, but it should be mostly straightforward (based on my experience<br>
with the products).<br>
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