topic Re: inventory in Operating System - Microsoft

inventory

Mahesh1 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:16:01 GMT

Hi Guys,
We have 500 computers with win2k profesional.
Every 3 months we need to take an inventory of all the machines like ram,hdd,speed of the processor,installed software.It will take lot of time to complete all the machines.Is there any tool available to complete the inventory in short amount of time?

Re: inventory

Norman_21 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:40:02 GMT

Mahesh,

Are you willing to pay?

For hardware and software inventory reports:

SMS 2003 SP1

Symantec Ghost Corp Edition V.8

Free from Microsoft Inventory Analyzer for software Microsoft core products only:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sam/msia.mspx

Consider assigning points and keep us updated.

Re: inventory

kcpant — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:56:40 GMT

Hi Mahesh,

you can use AIDA32 for this purpose, which generates txt based reports ( or tabwise explorer type report on monitor), which you can use & store.

Re: inventory

Ken wanderer — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:55:32 GMT

Hello,
Try a program like Belarc www.belarc.com
I think they have a corporate edition for networks but the free download is good for system to system details.
Another is Visual Audit Pro. www.visionsoft.com.
Haven't tried this one but says it can do what you want done.

Re: inventory

Phil.Howell — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:42:26 GMT

Compaq insight manager, see
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/cim-description.html
There used to be 2 variants of this product, LC for small/medium networks, and XE for larger ones. If you can still get the LC version, it will do what you want, see
http://h18002.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10343_div/10343_div.HTML
It is also free (as in beer)
Phil

Re: inventory

Jon Finley — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:45:32 GMT

We use WinAudit to do our inventories.

Works pretty well, and it's free.

http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm

Example entry for logon scripts, so that ALL users invoke the tool and the output gets saved to reflect the computer's name:

k:\winaudit\winaudit.exe /r=DCLv /o=text /f=k:\winaudit\%computername%.txt

Jon