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Kappo

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So, Im still searching for an enterprise(ish) solution for my inventory and asset management.

My company is a Fortune 250 company and Im looking for a decent and fairly simple asset management software (still).

What does your medium/medium-large/large company use to track internal assets/software?

I need something good and Ive tried LanDesk, Alteris, OpenManage, but none seem to give a fairly simple way to manage inventory and assets (preferably without installing an agent and just using a domain credential), manage patches, monitor servers (later on down the road).

 

nweaver

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pretty much all are going to require a client


Eracent is the industry leader, when I did a comparative analysis a few years a go...althought Centennial Data wasn't too bad either.
 

nweaver

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Originally posted by: blckgrffn
We use Novell Zen Asset Manager :p

It works great, but I doubt we keep it much longer. I mean, it's Novell. It must be bad, right? :D

Nat

sure, just ask Microsoft, they will tell you how bad Novell is....
 

Commish

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We use SMS 2003. It can be tricky to set up and maintain though, and there is a rather large learning curve. I've been running ours for three years now with 1200+ systems on nineteen sites (time includes SMS 2.0), but it does a very good job for software distribution and inventory of hw and sw. They also have a built in reporting feature for pretty much anything you can run a SQL query on, that works well also.
 

JBT

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Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
Altiris.


Mine uses that too. It gets what we need done. Though they were just bought out by Symantec yesturday.
 

BZeto

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We are moving to Microsoft SMS in the next month or so. Currently just use group policy to push out apps and modified GRUB to load machines.