[lug] OT: [kinda] Software Audit and Inventory tools

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 03 March 2003 12:07 pm, ryan.wheaton at attbi.com wrote:
> Anyone know of GPL'd or Freeware software auditing and/or inventory
> tools?
>
> I've seen some "free" ones around, but it's limited to 25 machines. 
> Ideally, I'd like something that has a client that is run on the desktop
> machine (windows) and reports back to one of my linux servers (but any
> kind of free reporting would be fine).  Although it would be nice, the
> one program doesn't have to return both information about the software
> and the hardware, but I do need a program for each.
>
> I was just wondering what everyone else was using, because I'm dreading
> having to go around and do all this by hand.

You can get almost all this out of the SNMP configuration installed on 
RedHat by default (I did have to correct one typo in the config file, 
first).  It has a complete listing of rpms installed and I think it tells 
about the hardware, too.