#10 Auto-Inventory via SNMP?

[Barry J.]

I've often wonder how feasible/usable/supported this
would be. I believe there are MIBs that cover, for
example, installed software and hardware configurations,
in addition to performance/availability details, tho' I don't
know how widely supported they might be. And I realise
SNMP is not without risks, but with the appropriate
caveats for closed/well-managed (!?) networks, perhaps
it could be effective?

Anyway, I was wondering if any thought had been given
to trying something like SNMP-probing machines to
accumulate inventory details?

[Dan A.]

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You'd have to write a module that uses PHP's SNMP package
which will go over MIBs, extract data, let the user verify
it (optional), and then insert into the database.