Hello, the Kermit Web UI does this also. We get the facts on the nodes,
but also specific system and application inventories. We use MCollective
to trigger the inventories and push them to the Web UI.
We can also query for specific facts whenever we want them.

Here are some screenshots of this :

http://www.kermit.fr/kermit/images/Kermit-Inventory-01.png
http://www.kermit.fr/kermit/images/Kermit-Inventory-02.png

And a screencast :

http://www.kermit.fr/video/kermit-server_details.mp4

Louis Coilliot


Le 20/12/2012 10:05, Ohad Levy a écrit :
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Forrie <for...@gmail.com
> <mailto:for...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In our department, we recently bought an install of HP's SIM agent
>     -- it's some hacky configuration reporting and management platform
>     that also facilitates firmware updates, etc.   I don't care for it.
>
>     For one, it requires root logins, but it also has agents that
>     report -- it also may have the ability to change the system.
>
>     My boss is looking for information that is presented in a GUI and
>     easily reportable.   I'm thinking Facter is a good candidate here
>     - we can tell it what version of software (SSH, etc), OS, etc.  
>     But, it's all command-line.   I'm wondering if there is (or if
>     someone is working on) a web-based GUI that can report these
>     statistics (we don't need the overhead of something like
>     puppet-dashboard).
>
>     And for misc things, we can always write custom facts.   Of
>     course, this would only apply to systems that are running puppet.
>      We have others that are not.
>
>     I've seen some other hacks out there that do different types of
>     reporting - if there's some better approach (open source), that
>     would be great to know about.
>
>
> While its not limited to inventory only, Foreman [1] can generate
> pretty looking graphs, and show you all of your facts (including
> custom) and the ability to search and feed that to any external
> service via a simple api.
>
> You can disable most of foreman functionality, and simply get facts
> (and maybe puppet reports if you are interested in puppet state and
> not just inventory) without all of the other nice features (enc
> classifications, provisioning, vm, cloud etc).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ohad
>
> [1] - http://theforeman.org
>  
>
>
>     Thanks.
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