I'm looking for good open source software and hardware inventory management software. A quick search on sourceforge returned following inventory management system / software management apps:
=> OCS Inventory NG, Open Computers and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help administrator keep track of the computers configuration and installed softwares. Low network traffic HTTP communications between agents and server. I'm currently testing this software and I will update all of you about my results.
Other old (outdated) softwares
=> PcInventory Web-based system to track the Pc and the installed peripherals.
=> phpMyInventory is a web-based hardware, software, and peripheral inventory system using PHP & MySQL. Currently stable on PHP version 4xx only!
=> Windows Inventory. A Computer Hardware and Software Inventory system. Based around wmi, vbscript, mysql & php. Expandable via modules to include software distribution, remote control, event viewer, disk monitoring, etc.
Most of these software are outdated. Basically, I need to keep inventory for following items
- Open source inventory asset management software
- Should able to track inventory
- Auditing feature
- Inventory of equipment owned and leased (including lease expiry)
- Software inventory for both Windows and UNIX systems
- Import / Export function etc
Do you have any recommendations for me? Please add them in the comments.
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Have you looked at Spiceworks?
There’s even
OpenAudIT
http://www.openaudit.org
OpenAudIT, url is not working. I’m also lookin at Spiceworks
Hey – you’re doing my work for me – I need to look sometime soon too – let us know how you make out!
Hi,
Nice article, something to try with ocs inventory ng is http://www.glpi-project.org/ . Perfect duo, surprised you did not put a few words about this nice piece of software.
Have fun
Hi,
Paragent looks very nice, I can’t get it working yet, but if it looks good.
http://www.paragent.com/
Theres a demo there
Written in Lisp, so extra points for that
Have fun
You can have a look at Reliable Assets (http://www.mbmsoftware.com). It’s free for up to 25 pc’s
Have fun!
John
The correct url for openaudirt is http://www.open-audit.org
I´ve read openaudit is the replacement to Windows Inventory.
We are working on updating the open-source installer for Paragent. It is a little rough right now getting all the components going. If you have any questions, be sure to join the google groups paragent-discuss. We try to help out as much as possible.
The OpenAudit URL is http://www.open-audit.org/
I second that GLPI post! This one amazed me! I’ve just begun using it, and it really fits my needs, comprehensive interface with many options to choose from to make a parfect asset tracking records. Helpdesk ticketing system is included…Open-source rocks!
http://glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en
Did you ever choose between any of these? I’m in the same boat, and currently I’m trying out Open-Audit, Paragent, and Spiceworks.
Spiceworks most likely won’t make it as it needs to run on a Windows box.
I’ve Open-Audit installed, but no clients added yet. Need to figure out how.
Paragent looks nice, but installing might be difficult.
Hi there,
You might want to have a look at Tideway. Free software, hardware and application inventory and CMDB including automated dependency identification and tracking.
Download a free version at: http://www.tideway.com/downloads/foundation/
“Tideway is data center search. It automatically discovers configuration items (CIs) across disparate technology layers – from business applications to switches and all the dependencies in between – and provides the information in a single, automated view. Tideway maps business applications to their underlying physical and virtual infrastructure, making it quick and easy to see exactly how your infrastructure supports your business.”
Would be great to get you involved in the community and have some feedback.
Best,
Richard.
hi together,
everything looks very nice. my opinion is ocs. does anybody know, how to inventory devices in depth, without installing a inventory client?
All of these options are overkill for what I want, which is a glorified database front-end. I don’t need clients and auto-sensing. I just want to keep track of computers, and software licenses associated to said computers, on a clean web-based user interface.
Seem like everything are full help desk solutions…
I’m in the same boat as Sprawl, in that I just want the basic features outlined in the original post, with no network/agent discovery. Something that can report on lease or software expiries would be great. GLPI looks good; I wouldn’t bother with OCS integration if I can avoid it.
GLPI is the best :-) best customization, lots of plugins, best for an administrator with lots of PCs and still it is totally free.. very neat interface.. It rocks..!!!
To just collect hardware and software data, have a look at System Configuration Collector (scc.qnh-infrastructure.nl). Each line of collected data is classified and this enables SCC to compare two consecutive snapshots and record differences in a logbook. Data can be send to the server part of SCC where summaries are generated and snapshots of systems can be compared.
SCC aims at a minimal footprint and requires a posix shell. Transfer to the server is possible via scp, ftp and email.
This will be useful but little complicated to start. http://www.glpi-project.org
Have you guys checked netassetmanager.sourceforge.net. Its a simple Hardware and software inventory management tool with some great reporting functionality right now only for windows networks.