I know Tarus Balog is probably biting his tongue, avoiding self promotion, but I'll promote his project for him.
OpenNMS is more or less a Nagios alternative, but nowhere near as painful to set up and maintain in larger environments. And to address the original poster, it already has an inventory feature built-in. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
