Which software do you guys use for managing devices in rack

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Hello HN,Which software do you use to keep track of ~100 devices in couple of racks. Need to hold all the information related to the device (power, network uplink information, and anscilloriy information such as licenses/serial numberss etc). Network management software seem overkill for this. I don't need to have network discovery.

r007c0n7r0l · Accepted Answer

https://netbox.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

absurddoctor · Answer

I no longer work in data centers, but in the past had success with both https://opendcim.org/ and https://www.racktables.org/. RackTables is probably a little simpler for managing just a few cabinets worth of things.

PaulWaldman · Answer

Checkout Prometheus for data collection and Grafana for visualization. Prometheus can also be subsitituted for Telegraf and InfluxDB.Here is an example demo Grafana dashboard for visualizing Promethus data. https://play.grafana.org/d/000000029/prometheus-demo-dashboa...

enz · Answer

One of my previous companies was using Shinken (Open Source Edition). Shinken is like Nagios, it's primarily used for monitoring purposes. However, it includes features to hold information related to devices (the location (multi-DC or LAN), which switch the server is plugged in, ...).

mister_hn · Answer

You can look at Nagios for example (https://www.nagios.org/) or something like OSQuery (https://www.osquery.io/)