Network Inventory

benj1290 · Mar 16, 2012

Hey guys,

Was wondering if anyone had some input or insight into a network inventory software that i could use. I'm simply killing my hands typing out all the information on the servers at my work. I'm mainly looking for open source software and i can install another server if need be for IIS.

Thanks in Advance!

FX4 · Mar 16, 2012

Man there is tons of software out there with all kinds of ways to get the information but you will still need to audit to make certain you have everything. Further it's a lot of work setting it all up. You can do it through MIBs via SNMP and RMON. Pick your application, there are literally thousands potential automated inventory systems.

benj1290 · Mar 16, 2012

I understand that there is tons of software. I have played around with a couple myself and I have stayed away from some as I can't tell if they upload the information to there side as well. For the pass 2 weeks I've been researching and I think I found one I liked. But i was looking for some input from others to see what they found and liked.

FX4 · Mar 16, 2012

My problem in giving a recommendation is it has been ten years since I worked with network inventory software and a lot has changed. What do you mean upload to their side? It's done via crawling MIBs. HP Openview was the defacto standard when I last worked in this area but like I said it has been ten years and a lot has changed. People that didn't have the Budget for Openview used to use Whats Up Gold. There are also security concerns now that were not an issue so I believe running SNMP on a lot of networks is kind of frowned upon these days.

benj1290 · Mar 16, 2012

example: http://www.spiceworks.com/

you run the software, it runs it on the domain and then uploads the information on there side so that you can see everything down to the network cards, services, etc. and its something that i do not want to broadcast outside of my network.

The one i found you simply install a new server, then IIS + MySQL and it will record everything there. this is preferable to what im looking for.

Neuromancer · Mar 16, 2012

Whatsupgold is what I used a few years back, I still get emails from them lol.

FX4 · Mar 16, 2012

Yeah I played with Spiceworks recently. I kind of left having the same feeling as you.

dark_15 · Mar 17, 2012

Are you looking to see what system/services are running on your network or are you looking for the ability to poll devices to see cpu/mem/etc?

NMAP is a good tool to see what's running on your network and is a great open source tool to do so.

I like PRTG or Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor for the latter.

turbohans · Mar 28, 2012

Pandora FMS or Nagios would work well for monitoring your hardware.

If you want something to be able to index your smb, http, ftp, and so on you will certainly want to check out the YaCy Public/Private P2P search engine

gangaskan · Mar 28, 2012

Neuromancer said:
Whatsupgold is what I used a few years back, I still get emails from them lol.

not cheap by far though :/ that is my only gripe

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