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Ask Slashdot: What Asset Tracking Software Do You Recommend?
grahamsaa writes: I work for an organization that has a number of physical assets, as well as presence in multiple data centers. On the DC side, there are a number of specific things we need to track (one thing we want to be able to account for is how much power we need for each rack). On the office side, our needs are more basic. We need to be able to tag and track laptops, workstations, monitors, etc.
I would like to use a single system for all of this, but have yet to find something that will work well on the office side and the data center side. Free / open source solutions are preferred, but we're prepared to spend money on a commercial solution if it meets our needs. What would you recommend?
I would like to use a single system for all of this, but have yet to find something that will work well on the office side and the data center side. Free / open source solutions are preferred, but we're prepared to spend money on a commercial solution if it meets our needs. What would you recommend?
Asset tracking? Git. If it's not in code, or it can't be 3D printed, how can it really matter?
You are a bane to the sharing economy! Stop with your nonsense about ownership. Asset storage is in the cloud for the rest of us!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I'm the OP of this article and it made the front page a few days ago. I mean, I'm honored that you think it was such a good post, but do you even read the front page?
Facts have a liberal bias.
seems this topic has already been covered.
Should be titled: Ask a 14 yro hipster living in his mom's basement. LOL
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+sour...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itop/
http://www.combodo.com/?lang=en
Just use Excel. Spreadsheets are the only way to go.
...how to keep track of their articles. Let's go folks, help them out!
Can someone recommended some good Slashdot Alternatives?
Take a look at TrackEnsure and think what an asset is. Retail management and warehouse management software does asset tracking.
its horrible, but it works.
a suite I helped develop way back in 2000 called Phonecian, it's a complete CMS written in ASP. I sold the whole caboodle on, I don't know where it's at now.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Unless you want repeats of your assets!
ocsng + glpi
but I would advise against something like HP's Service Manager Asset Manager software. It's over-the-top complex, runs slow, and is really expensive. I doubt you need some ITIL compliant application, running in java in your browser. Being forced to "eat your own dogfood" is painful hahaha
Ever heard of a filesystem?
Take a look at OCS + GLPI (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org), I have been using them for ages, they are great. OCS automatically collects information from your assets (installed software, hardware, etc). GLPI takes care of the inventory. Both are web based and run with a minimal Apache/PHP/MySQL setup.
Sesdr.
BMC Remedy and Atrium really put the BM in BMC.
Yech.
Check out locusview.com
They are willing to enter new markets and work with customers to customize the product to fit customer's needs.
Asset tracking? Slashdot needs a dupe tracking app. This has been posted not a week ago.
After watching Jurassic World, I strongly prefer the use of velociraptors for tracking assets.
FWIW, my team is looking at Device42 (http://www.device42.com/) for this - though we're more interested in tracking lab / datacenter assets, and less interested in laptops and desktops.
We've been pretty happy with it so far during our eval - check it out, see if it meets your needs.
http://www.spiceworks.com/
Free and easy to customize. Includes helpdesk, inventory and purchasing. Plus you can extend it with your own code if you like. Maybe this is the right answer they were looking for the last time this was posted.
You may not have to reinvent the wheel. They probably have a system used to calculate depreciation that you can add on to. Any basic system could meet your asset tracking needs. I work in an organization that uses M$ system center config manager to control deployments, and ServicePro cloud 9 for helpdest call tracking. Both do a good job keeping up to date on who has what hardware; but realistically a single spreadsheet with document versioning enabled would work just as well and cost a hell of a lot less. Asset tracking is just a matter of sitting down with all the people managing assets and coming up with a process that is acceptable to all. There is no software that can fix human behavior!
"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
The Chinese swine flew in and shat upon the thread of knowledge and resentments. Can I please have by eQIP data back?
LANDESK made a really good asset tracking software called Asset Lifecycle Manager (ALM)? Unfortunately, they had no idea how to sell and market it and are now trying to focus on IT assets, so they don't really have ALM front and center on the web page anymore, but if you called a sales rep, I bet you could get a demo.
Great for physical asset management, works with on guard as well.
If you would like, I would be happy to custom build you a solution that will exactly fit your needs. You can see my website here: appweaverz.com, and I can build a product like this quickly. Best, Mark
We were on excel untill last year, then moved to ezofficeinventory. We track our IT equipment. So far so good
We had the same task in our company and after long time resarch we decided to use jdisc professional. They also offer a freeware for testing. You can find it on http://www.jdisc.com/en/produc...
Sounds like you not only need to track items, but need the asset in cases to report back intelligently? I would recommend fetch. Check out http://solutions.fetchcontrol.... Not quite "open source" but is open to plugging into any system as fetch is a platform. Please feel free to visit the site. Would love to talk to you live m. Just complete the "contact me" form and I'll get back to you. Joel