Inventory Scanning/Reporting software

[John Doe]

I'm getting tired of tracking hardware inventory of computres by hand and
entering the data in to an Excel spreadsheet. I'm looking for a
recomendation for a good tool for a network of about 60 machines. Something
that will scan the systems on our network and report info about the
Processor, Memory, HD, OS, Applications installed, Dell Service Tag, etc.
All the systems are either Windows XP Pro or Windows 2003 Advance Server.

Thanks,
Mark

 

[vyckou]

One of the best, in my oppinion, free inventory software was AIDA32.
That project is closed already, but try to google it. It runs on
server, start it on clients machines using GPO. then run on your PC,
start network inventory and ualia all PC's report are in shrefolder in
html,txt,o even in OBDC linked DB.

P.S. You need and Enterprise edition - only this supports network audit


John Doe raše:

 

[Guest]

Try "Steel Inventory".
It is a freeware. In my opinion is absolutely awesome....
I got it from Snapfiles.com.
It allows you to scan subnets and get hardware, software inventory as well
as keep tracking on the changes....Reports can be created as well....
I started to use it a month ago.....Love it!

 

[Chriske911]

I'm getting tired of tracking hardware inventory of computres by hand

and entering the data in to an Excel spreadsheet. I'm looking for a
recomendation for a good tool for a network of about 60 machines.
Something that will scan the systems on our network and report info
about the Processor, Memory, HD, OS, Applications installed, Dell
Service Tag, etc. All the systems are either Windows XP Pro or
Windows 2003 Advance Server.

Thanks,
Mark

depending on your skills you could cook something up your self

also bginfo can be used to gather data
you could direct the output to a share on the network in a CSV format
and then build something that gives you an overview of all data found

AIDA32 does not exist anymore officially but it can still be found
there was an enterprise edition

a bat file is also possible
much can be discovered with simple dos commands
then again, direct the output to a central folder using the name of the
workstation as a file name

there are a dozen of programs that can be used
and most of them are freeware
almost all of them can be scripted to do an automated discovery

WMI is another way of getting every piece of info from a node, does
require a lot of scripting knowledge
SMS is a way if you have deep pockets
Dameware is another commercial application
also Intuit TrackIT

if you google yourself for "network discovery hardware" you will find
hundreds more

but the ones I have mentioned are the ones I have used myself with good
results


grtz