[ale] Server Record Keeping

[Brian MacLeod]

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On 3/4/10 9:09 AM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> TBH, I'm not even sure what to call this one.  I'm looking for a
> web-based app that will let my department keep better track of our
> servers.  Right now, our documentation on updates, installed versions,
> configuration, hardware specs, etc. is pretty spotty.  I'm looking for
> something that will let us keep that in one place and pull reports based
> on almost any criteria (Memory in system, kernel version, IP address,
> mac address, etc. all come to mind.)  We need a way to document when
> updates are performed, when configuration is changed, etc.  Does anyone
> know of a tool to help us keep such documentation?  For those of you who
> admin multiple servers, what is your practice?


Having seen and worked with it in this capacity for the past year, I
have to say OpenLDAP.  Integrating the information into custom apps is
easy.

Whatever you want to track you can put in there.  Querying is easy since
most distros include those tools by default, or are an easy install away.

Brian
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