Re: [Security Weekly] Computer inventory software

[Moses Hernandez <moses () moses io>]

Tim,
  Haven’t spoken in a bit, been traveling and the like. We’ve had many conversations about tools like ‘puppet’, ‘chef’, 
PowerShell ‘DSC’, and now Ansible. I would say that if you have already deployed one of these tools you can use that as 
your CMDB source. For example if you had puppet enterprise you would have a CMDB already, or if you had Puppet 
OpenSource you could use PuppetDB to start building your own CMDB. PuppetDB 
(http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/latest/configure.html) can use HSQLDB or PostgreSQL as its datastore. You might be 
able to use some simple relational database mappings to help you along. Its not out of the box, but I like scale. I 
know those tools scale. LanSweeper and CMDB will only scale if the people scale. They are not designed to elastically 
grow in dynamic environments. Just things to think about as devices come on and leave the network. 

if you are interested in using Ansible: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_inventory.html and 
http://docs.ansible.com/intro_dynamic_inventory.html and http://docs.ansible.com/developing_inventory.html

The limit is what you make of it.  Happy to help :)


On Feb 27, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Tim Krabec <tkrabec () gmail com> wrote:

> CMDB is pretty looks sweet.
>
> Thanks all, lan sweeper looks nice, too
>
> Tim Krabec
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> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Larry Petty <lspetty () gmail com> wrote:
> I use the paid version of Lansweeper. It provides copious amounts of data and reporting, depending on the your level 
> of network access (AD, SNMP, SSH, etc.). It will do everything you listed and much more.
>
> http://www.lansweeper.com/
>
>
> Thank you! 
> Larry Petty
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>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Tim Krabec <tkrabec () gmail com> wrote:
> What is everyone using?
> Looking for more of a machine inventory
> ie 
> Server 1 
> DNS
> Owner: IT
> Responsible: Joe, Fred
> Purchase Date: 01/24/13
> Warrenty END:  01/24/16
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