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Ask Slashdot: What Asset Tracking Software Do You Recommend?

Posted by timothy on from the soviets-just-used-a-pencil dept.

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?

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  1. Come on Slashdot! by grahamsaa · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

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    1. Re: Come on Slashdot! by binarylarry · · Score: 3, Funny

      I was like fuck, an agent is here!

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    2. Re:Come on Slashdot! by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 2

      What, you didn't get any answers last week? :-)

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    3. Re:Come on Slashdot! by antiperimetaparalogo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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?

      Slashdot needs an article tracking software, do you have something to recommend?

      Anyway, since we are here again, i am curious to know if you found some of the answers on your question few days ago useful (e.g., between funny and serious, for your case i had recommended "Microsoft Office - Excel and/or Access...")

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  2. Slow news day by NotInHere · · Score: 4, Informative

    seems this topic has already been covered.

  3. Re:Git by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 2

    git rm -rf ./
    git commit -a -m "House burned down:("

  4. Re:Git by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    > it's just a matter of creating an application specific UI on top

    Yeah, he's looking for a house so you point him to a stack of planks and say, you can just build one.
    Everyone does this at some point in their career right? No. It's a fucking nightmare that no developer wants to get involved with or maintain.

    The silly suggestions that have appeared in similar threads have included:

    LanSweeper
    Trackensure
    nLyte (Asset Management module)
    A fucking spreadsheet with versioning (hey that's like your suggestion!)

    Then there are appropriate solutions like:

    http://snipeitapp.com/
    http://www.jollytech.com/produ...

  5. Re:Git by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2

    I guess you're thinking of this?

    http://ask.slashdot.org/story/...

    I tagged the current story as a dupe, but the tag was removed so I guess duplicates that don't occur within the same Mon-Fri period don't count as such.

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  6. Re:Git by sumdumass · · Score: 2

    I don't think the wording changed either. At first I thought that maybe my settings pushed it to the front page twice somehow or i read it in the fire hose or something. But your comment is too early in the thread order for that to be the case. Maybe someone is upset their astroturfing didn't end up listing their products so slashdot had to post it again else have to refund payment for the slashvertisement.