What software to use to inventory my systems?

[jackie baron_1]

I have a 500 node server farm mostly HPUX and solaris and all are snmp enabled. I have NNM running that gives me a nice general map. I would like to know if anyone can recommend any software (HP preferably or otherwise) that I can use to get a snapshot of all my servers. I really need to get these servers inventoried...in other words I need to get software and hardware inventory from each system without walking around to each box with a pen and pad. And I need to be able to access this inventory data so that I know when patch levels are different or kernels are upgraded etc. and what Jave version is on this or Apache version on that. I heard of AssetCenter. Does it require an agent to be loaded on each machine to collect this data? Can it be done purely with SNMP?

Thanks

jackie

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

There is no complete answer. OS software, patches and HP add ins are managed by software distributor, known as sd/ux

swlist -l product

This will provide a complete inventory of that segment. It's possible to provide remote access and tie the systems together to some degree to get inventory information. In general, I use password free secure shell (openssh).

Products such as Oracle are not distributed in sd/ux depot format, and there is no really reliable way to inventory binaries such as this. We have managed to repackage Oracle into a tar format which if we wished would let us distribute it as a depot, but we've not taken that step.

http://www.hp.com/go/swa provides some tools that might help you.

SEP

[AwadheshPandey]

For software u can use swlist.
ie: swlist -l product/depot
man swlist
for hordware level u can use.
cstm, print_manifest, machinfo tools.

[dipesh_2]

run the nickle script for complet system inventory. for individual software inventory run swlist -l product

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

various tools from HP are here for what you need

http://h20331.www2.hp.com/hpsub/cache/286022-0-0-225-121.html

The Nickel script is a good one as it will list everything you need i'm sure. Generates a HTML file with all info s/ware and h/ware installed and configured

The sysinfo tool may also be useful

Andy

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Seeing how you have a mixed environment (like most of us) - try cfg2html:

http://come.to/cfg2html

Basically, run that say once a month on each system, and use scp to store it on a central documentation server (I use mambo/joomla for documentation). Create say a directory under your document root - say something like "server-files" then you can browse these with any web browser.

As a tip, remove the following lines to get rid of the annoying pop up that the author setup:

/opt/cfg2html/plugins/head02.html


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Rgds...Geoff

[John Payne_2]

Like Geoff, I also use cfg2html. It's always done what I need, as far as an overall "What does (did) this server look like."

John

[whiteknight]

Hi Jackie,

I would recommend you try on our System insight Manager (HP SIM), this is part of VSE component to manage your system inventory.

http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html?jumpid=go/hpsim

I'm really encourage to take a look on this.
As this is part of VSE.

[jackie baron_1]

Thanks everyone. cfg2html sounds like the way to go. I go to the URL and I want to subscribe but when I click join this group it just dumps me to a yahoo login screen. Do I not join their forum another way?

jackie

[jackie baron_1]

Relax guys,

I figured it out and took the plunge...joined a yahoo group. Thanks for all your help

jackie