[u-u] Asset tracking...

[Colin McGregor]

At an office staff meeting today the question of how to track servers
came up. There are people who would like to be able to tell in seconds
that say :

Server Fred:
- is an HP model 1234 with 256 GB RAM, and a 5 TB RAID
- is in data centre "Smith" cage #4 rack #102 shelf #17.
- has two power supplies, gets its' power from PDUs 4-2-1 & 4-2-2
- has lights out management connected to 3com switch 6 port 27
- lights out management port has IP 10.0.0.4
- main IP is 10.1.0.7
- is running OS Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") GNU/Linux
- is a game server running "Quake" and "Quake II"
- etc...

In summary track everything of ANY consequence about every server.
Further be able query by all data fields, (ie: list all servers
running "Quake II" or in cage #4, rack #102, etc).

Anyone have any suggestions as to what could handle the above
painlessly? I have run across references to a program called "Collins"
(https://tumblr.github.io/collins/), anyone know how well it would
handle the above?

Thanks.


Colin.