My current challenge is that our "known" documentation does not reflect reality; we have a number of servers/services that are unknown/undocumented but are likely in production. I am currently seeking a method to either scan and diagram or scan and persistantly monitor a number of internal and external servers and workstations. Below is a list of features that are relevant, however ease of implementation, deployment, and/or updating take precident.
Features:
- Scanning (Automatically finding all available hosts)
- Diagraming (with minimal setup/interaction)
- Monitoring (if possible)
Additional notes:
I am a senior technician with extensive Windows and Linux/*nix experiance, however I do not have a lot of time to dedicate to this internal project. I am seeking something that can be easily deployed (by me) and then later accessed/updated by Level 1 or Helpdesk employees (with step-by-step documentation that I will create). My primary goal is to capture our current infrastructure and compare it to our "known" documentation (with an emphasis on finding and securing each server). It is not necessary for this system to automatically and persistantly update itself, however, if the feature can be obtained with relative ease, this would be a nice "plus".
Our environment:
- 2 physical locations/subnets (located in different cities and connected via point-to-point VPN)
- 60+ laptop users (and a small number of workstations) - It is not critical that these be diagramed/monitored
- Between 30 and 40 remote "locations" (our employees access our network from home/client sites via VPN or simple http/ssl connections such as web servers and rpc over https "Exchange" access)
- An unknown number of http/https users (probably between 100 and 150)
- A variety of "hosted" services that we use (such as web/dns hosting)
Please feel free to suggest open source solutions (prefered) or non-free solutions (inexpensive). Please only recommend expensive/robust solutions if there is a clear way to both implement and maintain them (with corrosponding screenshots/whitepapers that target Technical AND executive decision makers.
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