Hardware inventory

["Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley pcraft com>]

   I thought I'd ask before reinventing the wheel...  Can anyone 
suggest an application for Linux that can track hardware inventory 
across a network?  I have several machines on our unix network and 
things are starting to get out of control trying to figure out which has 
what storage or memory or something as simple as, 'What OS does that 
have again?'

   I've seen many different applications for Windows but they don't 
know how to query a Linux box.  So I'm asking for help here.  Most of 
the machines are running some FC version (1-5) and only two of them have 
RH7.3 on them.  (Imagine my surprise when I manually scanned the network 
this afternoon...RH7.3??  Badly in need of an upgrade.)

   Anyway, I'd like to be able to have this beast track hardware on 
each machine and possibly also what services they provide (though some 
of that will have to be manually entered as some machines serve specific 
services (for specific domains) while others don't.)  If it can scan the 
network and query each machine for data, that'd be a plus, however if 
that's not possible, I'll make do.

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