Hi Friends,

I am trying to do some inventory management for our environment. As of now we build server and keep information on an excel file with the details like servername, IP address, Application hosted, Environment. I am thinking to do some online inventory management like hosting a web page which will keep the info on all the servers and new builds. Any ideas, thoughts how to proceed further.

The company I work for wrote it's own provisioning database for this purpose (with Nagios integration), but I'm aware of a number of various asset management database options, including phpMyInventory (open source) and GLPI (proprietary). I'm sure others will be able to expand on this.

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Have you followed the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature? Specifically, the part about doing research on your own first???

One of the very first hits in Google for "linux systems inventory management web page" is:
http://www.open-audit.org/

...along with over 2.6 MILLION other results.

I am aware of the question guidelines. I was trying to explore ideas on how to move ahead on it, rather than asking for exact solution to implement this, So i don't think I violated the terms of this forum.

@ferrari - How about using LAMP here to make a inventory mgmt of your own.

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Terms? No...but again, it seems like you didn't show any effort to look up things for yourself.
...which is EXACTLY what the link you were given uses to do this. Along with many other products you can find on page one of that Google search.

And 'using LAMP' is about as descriptive of a term as "using computer". LAMP stands for "Linux Apache MySQL PHP"....so, an operating system, web server, database, and programming language. You can write whatever programs you want in PHP to do whatever you'd like, with whatever database you come up with. So, feel free to write whatever you'd like.

Yes, you could use LAMP to achieve this. BTW, the open source (Gnu GPL) MairaDB was forked from MySQL some time ago, and most distros now provide it as the default instead. I really depends on whether you have the resources to develop your own DB, or would prefer 'off the shelf' asset management software. Good luck with whatever approach you take.

i think this is what open-erp was created for but maybe its overkill ?

i am rite now managing a sqlite3 database i created to keep track of user-id's handed out for special purposes. i mite make a php webpage so that users can self-serve themselves.