Ask Slashdot: What Asset Tracking Software Do You Recommend? 68
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?
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?
Git (Score:2, Interesting)
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!
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git rm -rf ./
git commit -a -m "House burned down:("
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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,
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> 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
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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.
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Isn't this a dupe? Didn't we just have this same question not so very long ago?
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Re: Come on Slashdot! (Score:4, Funny)
I was like fuck, an agent is here!
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He probably wasn't happy with the ones he got [slashdot.org], regardless of how correct they were.
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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])
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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!!!
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Settle down now. He is just a sales agent who was recently promoted to middle management. He is still trying to make that transition from exaggerating what the product can do and unrealistic delivery times to what unrealistic features and deadlines the devs are capable of. Just save your comments until he starts abusing TPS reports.
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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)
RadiantRFID.com Check them out. Very complete systems and accurate for enterprise uses. Not open source however but good value for asset tracking.
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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)
seems this topic has already been covered [slashdot.org].
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More accurately, it's a dupe of the exact same summary (with no paragragh break).
Welcome to IT (Score:2)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+sour... [lmgtfy.com]
No, Slashdot really does need to know... (Score:1)
...how to keep track of their articles. Let's go folks, help them out!
since you asked twice (Score:2)
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 + glpi (Score:1)
ocsng [ocsinventory-ng.org] + glpi [glpi-project.org]
I hope no one at my corp reads this.. (Score:2)
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Sigh (Score:2)
Asset tracking? Slashdot needs a dupe tracking app. This has been posted not a week ago.
Velociraptors (Score:2)
Talk to your finance department. (Score:2)
LANDESK Asset Lifecycle Manager? (Score:1)
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.
custom fit applications (Score:1)
Perfect choice (Score:1)
Not just tracking. - Asset intelligence. (Score:1)