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Ask Slashdot: What Asset Tracking Software Do You Recommend? 68

Posted by timothy 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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  • Git (Score:2, Interesting)

    by phantomfive ( 622387 )
    Asset tracking? Git. If it's not in code, or it can't be 3D printed, how can it really matter?

    You are a bane to the sharing economy! Stop with your nonsense about ownership. Asset storage is in the cloud for the rest of us!

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

      • Awesome thing about git......even if you pushed that commit and everyone checked it out, the data would still be there with a simple rollback.

        • Insurance company wants to know what you owned on a particular day? Check out that revision.

          Do quarterly tags. Push it to Github. Put it on a dropbox or google drive,

          • Yeah, I think Git actually has the necessary utilities to do anything like this......it's just a matter of creating an application specific UI on top. Right now they made a programmer specific UI and called them "porcelain commands."

            • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

              by Anonymous Coward

              > 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!)

              Th

              • 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.

                I don't care about that. It's an idea that entertains me. If I get time, I'll build it.

              • Re: (Score:1)

                by KGIII ( 973947 )

                Isn't this a dupe? Didn't we just have this same question not so very long ago?

                • I guess you're thinking of this?

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

                  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.

                • 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.

        • Re: (Score:1)

          by Anonymous Coward

          No, that's Subversion. Git is vulnerable to a forced merge, and to the deletion of tangs or branches and rename of those branches as "master" in a central repository. It's the separate, off-site mirroring of content that is resistant to the forced merge, and the GPG signed tags that provide provenance. Subversion has nothing like the signed tags, any shmuck can replace man-in-the-middle replace a Subversion repo unless you're very, very careful, and there's no surety that the numbered revisions match the or

  • Come on Slashdot! (Score:5, Informative)

    by grahamsaa ( 1287732 ) on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:26PM (#49902217)
    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?
    • Maybe its your signature.

    • Re: Come on Slashdot! (Score:4, Funny)

      by binarylarry ( 1338699 ) on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:42PM (#49902289)

      I was like fuck, an agent is here!

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

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by antiperimetaparalogo ( 4091871 )

      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..." [slashdot.org])

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      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?

      Crap, this was supposed to be Fridays gender war article - SORRY!!!

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Ha, that's just brilliant!

      As to the topic at hand, take a look at trackensure [trackensure.com] for people and delivery tracking, shipmatica [shipmatica.com] for package tracking in a warehouse, retail management software [titan-technologies.org], these are things that are designed to track assets, different types of assets, combinations of assets, that's maybe something you should look at.

    • Re: Come on Slashdot! (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      RadiantRFID.com Check them out. Very complete systems and accurate for enterprise uses. Not open source however but good value for asset tracking.

    • 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?

      Are you saying this is a dupe? Because this article made the front page last night in the middle of the night (for Americans).

  • Slow news day (Score:5, Informative)

    by NotInHere ( 3654617 ) on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:27PM (#49902225)

    seems this topic has already been covered [slashdot.org].

  • No, Slashdot really does need to know... (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    ...how to keep track of their articles. Let's go folks, help them out!

  • a suite I helped develop way back in 2000 called Phonecian, it's a complete CMS written in ASP. I sold the whole caboodle on, I don't know where it's at now.

  • ocsng [ocsinventory-ng.org] + glpi [glpi-project.org]

  • but I would advise against something like HP's Service Manager Asset Manager software. It's over-the-top complex, runs slow, and is really expensive. I doubt you need some ITIL compliant application, running in java in your browser. Being forced to "eat your own dogfood" is painful hahaha

  • Asset tracking? Slashdot needs a dupe tracking app. This has been posted not a week ago.

  • After watching Jurassic World, I strongly prefer the use of velociraptors for tracking assets.
  • You may not have to reinvent the wheel. They probably have a system used to calculate depreciation that you can add on to. Any basic system could meet your asset tracking needs. I work in an organization that uses M$ system center config manager to control deployments, and ServicePro cloud 9 for helpdest call tracking. Both do a good job keeping up to date on who has what hardware; but realistically a single spreadsheet with document versioning enabled would work just as well and cost a hell of a lot le

  • LANDESK made a really good asset tracking software called Asset Lifecycle Manager (ALM)? Unfortunately, they had no idea how to sell and market it and are now trying to focus on IT assets, so they don't really have ALM front and center on the web page anymore, but if you called a sales rep, I bet you could get a demo.

  • If you would like, I would be happy to custom build you a solution that will exactly fit your needs. You can see my website here: appweaverz.com, and I can build a product like this quickly. Best, Mark
  • We had the same task in our company and after long time resarch we decided to use jdisc professional. They also offer a freeware for testing. You can find it on http://www.jdisc.com/en/produc... [jdisc.com]
  • Sounds like you not only need to track items, but need the asset in cases to report back intelligently? I would recommend fetch. Check out http://solutions.fetchcontrol.... [fetchcontrol.com] Not quite "open source" but is open to plugging into any system as fetch is a platform. Please feel free to visit the site. Would love to talk to you live m. Just complete the "contact me" form and I'll get back to you. Joel

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