On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 16:19, Hiisi hiisi@fedoraproject.org wrote:
This maybe is a little off-topic on this list hence the 'OT' in the subject line. Sorry for that. I need to gather hardware information from computers on a local network and store it on a server. The server runs F16, clients run different ubuntu versions (11.04 mostly). The information should include such things as monitor serial numbers and other details for definite identification. The main purpose is inventarisation of all the hardware we have in the office. There's about 40 workstations. Google suggests use combination of OCS Inventory NG with GLPI [1]. The other idea is to write a set of bash scripts and put them on cron on workstations (the information should be updated weekly) and main script on the server would store information in the database. However if there's ready solution I would be happy to use it.
Smolt is made for exactly this purpose. Maybe you can see if its possible to have a smolt setup local to your LAN?