Hardware/Software Auditing for a Networked Environment???

[jbod]

Does anyone know of a great hardware scanner for a networked environment? I want something that is installed on the host and scans the clients without having to install it on the client.

I'm looking to scan just about everything on a computer such as all hardware and it's associated driver/software, physical HDD information, memory, and so forth...

Anyone?

 

[Gunbuster]

http://www.tapebackupandraid.com/network_appliance/hp-c1316a-9100c.asp

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
http://www.tapebackupandraid.com/network_appliance/hp-c1316a-9100c.asp

thats helpful...

 

[jbod]

Thanks...but not what I had in mind.

 

[Bootprint]

AdvancedRemoteInfo might at least be a step in your direction.

 

[aircooled]

don't think there is any true hardware solution. will probably need a server with some auditing software.

 

[beatmix01]

http://www.fluke-net.com/microtools/

 

[aircooled]

Originally posted by: beatmix01
http://www.fluke-net.com/microtools/

great tools for network testing, but not for inventorying hardware and software as he suggested in the initial post.

 

[Soybomb]

Check out the belarc advisor packages

 

[jbod]

Thanks all.

 

[jbod]

I've tried Advanced Remote Info...for some reason it didn't work correctly. All it gave me was NetBios Name and something else that was not useful. It works great for the host scan, but not the clients.

 

[Viper0329]

You might want to edit the original post. It sounds like you want a document scanner with network capability. What you want is a network hardware identifier of sorts.

 

[TommyVercetti]

Aida32

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=33&threadid=1195574&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Viper0329
You might want to edit the original post. It sounds like you want a document scanner with network capability. What you want is a network hardware identifier of sorts.

So what's an affordable multi-function unit (pref. B&W laser) that supports some form of network scanning?

I'm interested in something a small business could afford, not a big hulking Xerox.

 

[Sketcher]

Blue Ocean Software

Track-It has an Audit add-in which provides software/hardware audit capability over the network. I run the Track-It helpdesk software but haven't tried the reporting tool yet. there's a fully functional trial download from the site.

 

[jbod]

I'm liking AIDA32, it seems to be stable enough. I installed SiSoftware's Sandra yesterday on my server...I did a test of the modem and it hosed it up. I had to reboot to fix this, so this was not something I would want to install on my remote sites and get locked out.

If you were thinking about Sandra, forget it...I think it also hosed up my Outlook. Installing that software was the last thing that changed from when I was sending e-mail to where I was not. (I finally got Outlook to work again though)