Re: Ideas for routine inventory of 400+ workstations
From: Mountain Man (KeepYouSpamToYourself_at_leavemealone.com)
Date: 08/23/03
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Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:02:19 GMT
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:35:35 -0400, dlhicks <member36687@dbforums.com>
wrote:
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>Would just like some feedback from others, for their ideas, or
>experiences on having to routinely inventory large numbers of solaris
>workstations.
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>Ideally I am would like to be able to automagically maintain a running
>inventory of:
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>-Wokstations (IP, MAC)
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>-Basic info about internals (cpu, ram, fbuffers)
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>-Periperhals (local disks, tape drives)
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>In theory this magical script would run on a single machine, use NIS to
>find ip's and macs, verify the machines presence and then collect the
>above basic info. Of course if anyone has any clever ideas how one
>might track the location of the workstation that would be great !!
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>If you have a script that's great, would love to see it even if it only
>does some of the above.....but really am just looking for a range of
>possible approaches...wild ideas or past experiences
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>Thanks
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>D
If your just talking Suns, I use CST 3.0, Configuration and Service
Tracker. It's part of SMC, but it does run as a standalone service.
I'm tracking 200+ machines with it, the server is a U10 with 512MB and
a 20G HD.
1 caveat, though. During the initial set up, stuff like serial
numbers have to manually entered. But ya only have to do it once,
even if you change hostname, ip address, or whatever.
It gives all sorts of details on installed hardware, O/S, patches, and
installed software. It can also be set up to e-mail if changes to
hardware or software occur, tracks stats like uptime and duration of
outages.
Oh, and it's free to download from Sun. The pay-for part it the
mechanism that ties back into Sun so they can see problems as you do,
and when your service contract is at the right $$$$, help solve
problems easier.
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