Best Tools For Network Inventory Management?

jra writes "Once every month or so, people ask here about backups, network management, and so on, but one topic I don't see come up too often is network inventory management — machines, serial numbers, license keys, user assignments, IP addresses, and the like. This level of tracking is starting to get out of hand in my facility as we approach 100 workstations and 40 servers, and I'm looking for something to automate it. I'm using RT (because I'm not a good enough Web coder to replace it, not because I especially like it) and Nagios 3. I've looked at Asset Tracker, but it seems too much like a toolkit for building things to do the job, and I don't want my ticket tracking users to have to be hackers (having to specify a URL for an asset is too hackish for my crew). I'd prefer something standalone, so I don't have to dump RT or Nagios, but if something sufficiently good looking comes by, I'd consider it. I'd like to be able to hack a bit here and there, if I must. Perl and Python, along with C, are the preferred implementation languages; least favorite is Java. Anyone care to share their firsthand experiences with this topic, and what tools they use (or built) to deal with it? "

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Re:40 Servers, 100 Workstations

[spun]

Or, you know, maybe the servers don't serve the workstations, but some type of external entity that buys some sort of a service, what do you call them? Customers? Nah, it would have to be that mean old incompetent government, the source of all evil. Why is that the go-to fall guy around here? Am I the only one who has seen the same level of incompetance in the private sector?

Perl

[Krneki]

I cannot comment on this specific issue, but I use Perl to do all the repetitive queries and sort them into a file.
The file is then read by IIS and can be seen by typing http://servername/ or just servername in the browser.
IIS is setup to display list.txt by default.

Simplest solution

[DoofusOfDeath]

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