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

[George Sexton]

>> 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,

Depends on the version. It's been broken frequently in RedHat. I had some
software that was dependent upon it.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Michael D. Hirsch
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:23 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] OT: [kinda] Software Audit and Inventory tools


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.

>From what little I know, you'd still have to do a lot of scripting to get
that info into a usable form, but it might be easier than walking around.

--Michael
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