Re: Network Discovery & Asset Management Tools

[Balaji Prasad <bp1974 () comcast net>]

Mike:
  Your best way to go about this is to use HP OpenView, which has a 
comprehensive auto-detection facility for medium to large networks. 
Ofcourse this implies that most of your devices will be SNMP aware.  This 
could be your best bet for a Class B network. A quick search for an open 
source variant lead to http://terminus.sourceforge.net/
Not sure whether it is as good as OpenView tho'.

To answer your next question, check out http://www.neon.com/LSwin.html. 
However if you are looking for a fun project, there are many tools that 
can identify different OSes by their network signature. Most obvious 
example is "nmap". With nmap feeding off from your DNS database and some 
perl/mysql, you can come up with a tool that will maintain a running 
database of assets in your network.

Hope this helped.

Balaji

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 07:38:32 -0400, Michael Chilcott 
<michael_chilcott () emoryhealthcare org> wrote:

> Hello Group,
>    I was wondering what tools are being used to discover new devices 
> (PC's, printers, & tablets) as they are being plugged into the network. 
> Having a class "B" network we have different routers, and switches 
> through-out. What is the best way to find and discovery devices plugging 
> in to the network?
>    Going hand-in-hand with that is a question of Asset management tools. 
> We have multiple O/S's in the network, so it must be able to determine 
> what is what, and have it entered automatically/manually into the app or 
> db.
>    Now what would be really Great is a tool that can take the info from 
> the "Network Discovery Tool" and add it to the Asset Management tool".
>    What applications work/not work and what experiences does everyone 
> have?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
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