[lug] asset management software/site for IT resources?

[Quentin Hartman]

I've used Spiceworks in the past. It's free, but not Free. If you can live
with advertising in your asset tracker, it works pretty well, and can even
do network discovery if you want. Snipe it looks pretty cool though, so I
think I'd try that first.

QH

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 1:18 PM P. Hoemke <hoemke.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure if it’s exactly the perfect fit, but I have used Snipe-IT before,
> and it did everything I wanted and then some:
>
> https://snipeitapp.com
>
> DIY open source, or hosted. Was fairly straightforward once I got my head
> in the basic paradigm.
>
> HTH, YMMV, ¢2, etc.
>
> Paul.
>
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 12:31 Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have recommendations for asset management software/sites for
>> modest IT resources? I have just enough computers, external drives, thumb
>> drives, etc., that I think I should check it out.
>>
>> Obviously it would be beneficial if it understood linux-type hierarchies:
>> a system contains one or more hard drives, drives can contain one or more
>> partitions, the partitions may have specific flags contain specific data
>> (e.g., I might have a dedicated partition for my database tablespace), etc.
>>
>> I've started tracking it in Confluence (only $10/year for up to ten
>> people!) but it's just an ad hoc file. Something focused on asset
>> management would probably be better as long as the learning curve isn't too
>> steep.
>>
>> (Hmm... maybe I could still do some things fairly easily, e.g., print bar
>> codes / QR codes that my phone can scan for a summary of the external drive
>> / thumb drive instead of using a small font...)
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