Hardware Inventory

[Heatex]

Does anyone know of any good programs that can scan each PC on a network and give me a hardware and software inventory of whats on and in the PC, i am aware that a client program would have to be installed on each PC as well.

[AHTTech]

Microsoft has Systems Management Server. It will inventory as well as meter (and so much more!). I have one client (a school district) who uses it, and swears by it. I think it's a little pricey though (what MS product isn't?).

[Heatex]

No dont want anything expensive, just something cheap so I can keep a simple constant track of what Hardware and Software is on what PC's

[LagMonster]

Our company uses a product called TriActive I have no clue on how much it is, but it does tell you what software is *installed, and the Hardware also.

[Heatex]

yeah that seems good, but they dont have any sort of trial software, i only have their word for what it can do and i would need to try it to justify asking my MD to purchase it

[MacGyver]

I did a search on good ol Google and came up with this:
http://www.lanauditor.com/

Freeware too, up to a 25 user network. More users, you have to pay, but at least you can evaluate it. I'm going to give it a whirl myself!

[silencio]

just a thought here. if their compaq machines you can use insight manager. all it does is pull info from the drivers. the drivers need to be wbem compliant. any software that pulls info from wbem drivers will work and any machine with wbem compliant drivers will work.

another way to get info is to use computer management in w2000. right click my computer and click properties. click action aand click connect to another computer. from there you can see various info about the other machine depending on what type OS it has..

[Deity]

That LanAuditor looks pretty nice, going to have to try that. I've been dreading a company wide inventory for months. This could save my a$$.

[condor]

hmm inexpensive..

I don;t know..

We use M$ SMS 2.0 and CA Unicenter TNG - they do amazingly great jobs...

[Deity]

I really want my company to invest in SMS, but they were lacking on sooooo many things when they hired me to fix it all up, that I'd spend 10 years of budgeted funds in about 6 months. Still, SMS is on the top of my list right now.

[Heatex]

hmm yeah they all seem ok anything else anyone can think of? other than walking of course