[Novalug] Shared hardware usage tracking

[Miguel Gonzalez Castaños]

Matt Bidwell escribió:
> kkauffman at headfog.com wrote:
>> Let me define the problem and hopefully someone knows of a potential OSS
>> solution that can fit the need.  I'm pretty sure this isn't as simple 
>> as a
>> straight forward as most asset management tools because I need to 
>> capture
>> additional information around multiple deployments, however, I've been
>> wrong before and I may be wrong again. :)
>>
>> Set the scene...
>> Multiple pieces of hardware in a shared infrastructure.
>> Multiple applications deployed to it.
>>
>> Question...
>> Is there a piece of software that can act as a simple database to 
>> enter in
>> information such as hostname, memory configuration plus the specifics
>> about the different applications deployed to it (memory allocated, file
>> system space allocated, etc)?
>>
>> Thanks for considering my request.
>>
> 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?

Miguel