inventory / configuration management tools

[Tom Judge]

Dan Langille wrote:
> Are you using a configuration management tool?  If so what?
>
> I don't mean a tool to manage /etc/rc.conf (for example).
>
> What I'm looking for is something to keep track of all the hardware,
> where it's installed, mac addresses, etc.  There has to be some kind
> of API into it so we can plug utilize our existing processes,
>
> We are looking at http://onecmdb.org/ but I'm wondering about other options.
>
>   
Hi Dan,

We use OCS-Inventory NG,  it works reasonably well and supports most OS's.

There is an API for it and it integrates with the helpdesk system that 
we chose for our internal helpdesk (GLPI).

Not sure if this is quite what you are looking for,  but it will 
automate the data collection part for you.

Tom