[u-u] Asset tracking...

[Hello Kittyhawk]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Colin McGregor wrote:
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|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 :
|
|[...]
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|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?


	Where would the data come from?  Do there need to be
	"live" queries of the servers or from "sampled" data?


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