Keeping inventory of all PCs on your network

[Leper Messiah]

Uck. I had to go from building to building in a school disctrict, logging computers. I think I ended up with over 600 spread out over 6 buildings. Excel is what we used, but one wrong click, and BAM! 45 minutes of work could be gone.

 

[Sketcher]

Thanks for the NEWT link.

I've been considering implementing Track-It, but I may give this a go first.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Sketcher
Thanks for the NEWT link.

I've been considering implementing Track-It, but I may give this a go first.

bump since i needed the newt program name.

don't use trackit. we're actually trying to migrate AWAY from trackit for various reasons (slowness, it doesn't record the CPU speed appropriately, etc.)

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
It is in our Remedy system here at work. One of my buddies is over inventory. He says it is a piece of cake.

We use Remedy here as well... 🙂

 

[Amused]

This is easy. Nuke all the computers on the network, then count the number of people who come to complain.

😉

 

[OpenThirdEye]

My company uses Altiris - great product...just freakin' EXPENSIVE!!

 

[Winchester]

Track-it

 

[BurnItDwn]

You could use this nifty program called "notepad.exe" if you are doing this on a windows based system. Otherwise "vi" tends to be pretty usefull.
Good luck.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
You could use this nifty program called "notepad.exe" if you are doing this on a windows based system. Otherwise "vi" tends to be pretty usefull.
Good luck.

oh really.

you plan on inventorying 60 servers, grabbing MAC addresses, getting information on each piece of hardware, finding out every program and version number, seeing what hotfixes are installed, among other very complex tasks -- using notepad?

you, sir, are a moron.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
You could use this nifty program called "notepad.exe" if you are doing this on a windows based system. Otherwise "vi" tends to be pretty usefull.
Good luck.

oh really.

you plan on inventorying 60 servers, grabbing MAC addresses, getting information on each piece of hardware, finding out every program and version number, seeing what hotfixes are installed, among other very complex tasks -- using notepad?

you, sir, are a moron.

Actually with vi you could write a script to collect all this information automatically for any machine that is on a network.

So vi is VERY appropriate.

 

[ToastedMilk]

We use LANAuditor. It works really well for our needs.

 

[Mutilator]

Originally posted by: Winchester
Track-it

Where I use to work we used Track-It! to audit the PCs remotely. Worked pretty good.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
You could use this nifty program called "notepad.exe" if you are doing this on a windows based system. Otherwise "vi" tends to be pretty usefull.
Good luck.

oh really.

you plan on inventorying 60 servers, grabbing MAC addresses, getting information on each piece of hardware, finding out every program and version number, seeing what hotfixes are installed, among other very complex tasks -- using notepad?

you, sir, are a moron.

Actually with vi you could write a script to collect all this information automatically for any machine that is on a network.

So vi is VERY appropriate.

Nah, To be honest I was being more of an ass with the notepad thing. (I was trying to make myself laugh)
If it's too complex for notepad then I don't think a little PHP/mySQL action would be "overkill."

 

[mzkhadir]

create a small program that reads the model and serial of the machine.