[Novalug] Shared hardware usage tracking

[kkauffman at headfog.com]

> Matt Bidwell escribió:
>> Are you looking to find out what you have in terms of hardware,
>> or are you looking to monitor the hardware you know you have?
>>
>> If you know your hosts and are just trying to get live stats
>> on them, Nagios maybe a solution.  It can tell you remotely
>> the amount of disk space being used, the amount of memory being
>> used.  There's a lot of plugins for nagios, so you can monitor
>> a lot of different services.
> And in terms of software? I'd like to be able to get a picture of the
> software installed in all machines, licenses installed if apply, etc.
> Any tool?
>

It does not really even need to be automated.  I'm thinking of manually
auditing some machines and recording reference data.  I already know I
won't be able to deploy NAGIOS.

So for instance, I might have a server that has 5 weblogic instances on
it.  Part of the configuration would have 5 host names, some file system,
each deployment has it's own memory allocation, etc.

So I might record, server, related hardware, deployed apps, internal app
ids.  I find that much asset management doesn't capture what the business
is looking for, but rather captures what the techies are looking for.

I'm looking for more like a reference database that a person can just look
up an asset and see what's on it and how much is already allocated. 
Potentially being able to leverage it for something else in the endevor of
maximum utilization.

The data can be entered by hand.  Automation might be difficult given the
existing controls.  A quick and dirty (but effective) solution is what I'm
after.  I could always do this in a spreadsheet (easily), but if a package
exists where they have already web enabled it, that'd be the preference.

No worries, just asking and hopefully find something with the help of the
community here.