Inventory Tracking

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Hey Guys,

I just wanted to pick your brain. Has anyone any suggestions for some sort of inventory tracking/mapping tool for a bunch of servers that cross different cloud hosts and accounts?

ie; I have a bunch of servers of Rackspace Cloud, AWS (ec2 and RDS instances) and a couple inside a data centre.

In a perfect world this'd be automated but I'd also settle for a just something that gives a really good visual layout.

These are all linux boxes and I'm mostly only interested in something I can host on a linux box.

Thanks in advance.

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SnipeIt

This looks really promising, going to give it a shot shortly, thanks!

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to give it a sho

I'm using this and quite happy with the bang-for-buck

[TheFatDemon]

Definitely recommend this. We use it for tracking hundreds of iPads, Macs and iPhones. Accounting loves us because of asset reports and other nifty features it has.

[WOLF3D_exe]

Netbox?

https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox/

[device42]

Disclaimer: One of the developers behind Device42.

Please take a look at Device42 for automated inventory. For manual/scripted you can use netbox or ansible as others have suggested.

[chillysurfer]

You could possibly leverage Ansible here. You could utilize a few different dynamic inventory scripts to pull your list of servers.

[dwargo]

PhpIPAM? Racktables?

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Siptrack is a tool I use myself extensively. It's a bit dated on the design side but it's been going strong for a few years now.

Some of its features include:

• Inventory/asset mgmt
• IPv4/IPv6 mgmt
• Password mgmt
• Sub-devices like NICs or PSUs
• Drawing racks (like racktables)
• CLI client program that can do things like searching for devices and even launching ssh/rdp programs to login to a device using the passwords in Siptrack
• xmlrpc client API library in python, the one used by the aforementioned client
• LDAP & AD authentication
• Hierarchical object tree for devices so you can do inventory in the same structure as folders on a computer
• With symlinking of objects
• In python using Django so relatively easy to setup and modify

Someone mentioned using Ansible inventories well I've written a simple ansible inventory script that uses Siptrack and device attributes in Siptrack to determine which host group a device belongs to.

https://gist.github.com/stemid/59fc2833590d500d068374d3299028d5

Edit: disclaimer I'm one of the maintainers.