Spam: Open source alternative to Microsoft's System Management Server

[Les Mikesell]

Arch Willingham wrote:
> Does anyone have an open source alternative to Microsoft's System 
> Management Server (SMS)? SMS will do a ton of stuff but the main thing 
> we need it for is keeping up with IT hardware assets (what computers we 
> have, disk space on each, processors, memory, etc) and need it to keep 
> up with Windows machines as well as Linux machines.

Look at http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/.  There are agents for both 
Windows and Linux that report the hardware/software inventory, disk 
space, etc. back to a central server on a scheduled basis and you can 
also use it to deploy programs or run commands on the clients.

There's a Centos/RHEL packaged server (needs EPEL too) and I think 
fedora also in this repository: 
http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en


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   Les Mikesell
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