Re: Network inventory/patch system suggestions?

[Greg Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

I wrote a freebie tool like this for hardware and software asset management.
It does not do patch management although it will expose all systems with a
particular patch installed.

Since it is free and I lack the degree of modesty required to simply keep my
mouth shut, here's how you get to it:

<http://www.mousetrax.com/pub/domainreport.zip>

Basic documentation is included in the archive and I highly recommend that
you actually read the README.TXT file before attempting to run the tool. The
results will simply make much more sense that way.

A more comprehensive discussion so that you may understand and tailor the
tool for your own purposes can be found at
<http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=339>

I've never used it against an Integrated AD implementation but it does work
quite well in mixed mode and Windows 2000 Integrated.

A quick hint for you, too; the two most important scripts at work in this
package are domainreportmanager.vbs and inventory.vbs.
HardwareReportCompiler.vbs is there to aggregate the information in all the
resulting system inventories into 4 basic classifications of data.
Therefore, the hardwarereportcompiler is a text based 'query' tool and can
be replaced by other scripts looking for specific data in those inventories
as you need.

Give it a look and feel free to write me if you need help or don¹t
understand my lazy English. Otherwise, good luck and I'm happy if I've
helped!

Greg Chapman
http://www.layer1wireless.com
http://www.mousetrax.com


On 4/29/04 2:00 PM, "Thomas Lesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In the very near future we are looking to do an IT audit of over 100
> computers.  I know it doesn't sound like that many, but they are spread out
> around 25 or so different locations.  The workstations are Windows 95, 98,
> 2000, and a few have XP installed.  Our PDC is Windows Server 2003 and we
> have three Windows 2000 Servers for other tasks.  We need to find out what
> applications the workstations have on them and also the license data to make
> sure we're legal.
> 
> So my question to the list is, does anyone have any recommendations and
> experience with a network audit/inventory system?  If the inventory
> application has any kind of patch management built-in that is definitely a
> plus, but the license compliance features, reports, etc. are the main focus
> here.  So far my favorite is Kaseya (http://www.kaseya.com/) but I am
> totally open for suggestions.
> 
> Thank you for any help you may be able to offer!
> 
> Tom Lesh
> 


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