Wasn't sure which forum to post this in since it hits networking, OS, and software all in the same thing...
So that time of year has come again for us, and I am looking for Network Inventory software to do the following:
The ones with * in front of them are VERY preferred but for the right software, can be given up.
*- Could provide a network map
*- Preferably does not need a client
*- Run either as a LAMP application or can run web-based
*- Access control groups to be able to add/update/view/generate reports via a web type console
- Can inventory Windows (NT, 2K, 2003, XP, Vista), Linux (Deb, RH, Suse), and Solaris (8&10 mostly)
- Be stored in a format that can be somewhat portable
- Have HTML or .PDF reports generated for either email or print
The only thing I have even really been looking at is Zenworks7, which looks pretty hot. Except that it is Novell. To say I hate Novell is a vast understatement.
What do you guys use for network inventory? I finally got it approved on our budget, so I can pay for it instead of NEEDing something free. The first rollout of this will be to about 200 windows machines and 150 mixed solaris and linux machines, but eventually it would go far far higher (1500 windows machines, 1100 solaris/linux machines). So scalability is a must.
The idea is that the techs will deploy the hardware after tagging it and adding it to the system. Then we can track where it is, and eventually be able to manage all of them remotely via a console of some sort.
Any help would be great! Not sure how MOM will work considering the mixed environment.
So that time of year has come again for us, and I am looking for Network Inventory software to do the following:
The ones with * in front of them are VERY preferred but for the right software, can be given up.
*- Could provide a network map
*- Preferably does not need a client
*- Run either as a LAMP application or can run web-based
*- Access control groups to be able to add/update/view/generate reports via a web type console
- Can inventory Windows (NT, 2K, 2003, XP, Vista), Linux (Deb, RH, Suse), and Solaris (8&10 mostly)
- Be stored in a format that can be somewhat portable
- Have HTML or .PDF reports generated for either email or print
The only thing I have even really been looking at is Zenworks7, which looks pretty hot. Except that it is Novell. To say I hate Novell is a vast understatement.
What do you guys use for network inventory? I finally got it approved on our budget, so I can pay for it instead of NEEDing something free. The first rollout of this will be to about 200 windows machines and 150 mixed solaris and linux machines, but eventually it would go far far higher (1500 windows machines, 1100 solaris/linux machines). So scalability is a must.
The idea is that the techs will deploy the hardware after tagging it and adding it to the system. Then we can track where it is, and eventually be able to manage all of them remotely via a console of some sort.
Any help would be great! Not sure how MOM will work considering the mixed environment.