Hardware Inventory Methods/Tools

[Andy Torres]

I'm getting tired of having to touch every bit of equipment periodically in order to have a fresh hardware inventory.

I'm primarily interested in HP-UX server hardware discovery and inventory tracking. We have many different types of servers, from D320 through Superdome.

What tool/software/script/whatever is recommended by the general population?
Any info is appreciated.

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

There is HP product SCR (System Configuration Repository) Check it.

Other methods, would be manually using some commands and logging the data.

Anil

[Geoff Wild]

I use a few:

cfg2html: Cfg2html is a UNIX shell script that creates a HTML (and ASCII) system documentation for HP-UX 10+11, AIX, SCO-UX, SunOS and Linux systems. Plugins for SAP, Oracle, Informix, MC/SG, FibreChannel, TIP/ix, Mass Storage like XP48/256/512, Network Node Manager and OmniBack etc. are included. This mailing list is for posting bug reports, enhancements requests and the cfg2html shell script itself.

http://www.come.to/cfg2html

Sysinfo from HP ESSO

See: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=634417

Rgds...Geoff

[Bill Hassell]

Depending on the depth you want, use cstm for very detailed information:

echo 'selclass qualifier all;info;wait;infolog' | /usr/sbin/cstm

Any machine that says: "cstm not found" is a big red flag to get the diagnostics installed as soon as possible!

For a shorter report, use print_manifest as in:

/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest

If any machines report: "print_manifest not found", run, don't walk to your nearest HP download site, get the lattest version and install/update it on every machine. Then read all about Ignite/UX in: man ignite

[Peter Leddy_1]

You can download this Openview product to demo it, not sure how much it is to buy though.

http://openview.hp.com/products/radia_invm/index.html

Peter

[Shaikh Imran]

Hi,

Try this also

http://www.grc.hp.com/docs/nickel/

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/catia/Utils/nickel.shar

for more info follow this thread

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=324137


Regards,

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

I use Tivoli cnfiguration management(TCM)which gives inventory of all h/w.
But you have to buy this from IBM.
if you don't want to pay any money you can use tool "cfg2html" http://www.come.to/cfg2html

you need to run this manually( can aslo be scheduled)to get the h/w and s/w config

[PeterWolfe]

There is also Systems Insight Manager
which includes an Inventory Manager
tool (inventory with snapshot comparisons).

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html

[Andy Torres]

Thanks much for all the great suggestions, each very informative and quick!

If we decide to implement any of the enterprise-sized applications mentioned I'll be sure to follow up here and offer discussion on why we chose to go in whatever direction.

Thanks again!