Anything out there better than BelArc Advisor?

5/26/2009 4:28:10 PM

sisoft sandra?

[Edited on May 26, 2009 at 4:34 PM. Reason : there's a trial, i believe]

5/26/2009 4:28:51 PM

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5/26/2009 5:08:20 PM

Astra isn't bad

5/26/2009 5:14:44 PM

How many machines are you looking to scan? We have a free 5 user version of our software that might work well for you.

http://www.gfi.com/lannetscan/

5/26/2009 7:34:42 PM

what are you auditing?

5/27/2009 8:57:36 AM

what are you auditing?

5/27/2009 9:20:42 AM

I am auditing around 15 computers on the same network.

No one really knows what anyone has. So i'm going around and making a little spread sheet for certain information but also saving all the auditing reports as well.

I would like to just record OS (service packs), Memory information, and processor speed/type for the spreadsheet. Also would like to archive the full out audit report just in case something comes up that I need.

5/27/2009 11:43:47 AM

there is no need to buy anything. WMI is all you need. if you really want to get slick, make a local policy for a shutdown script and put in a script that queries what you want to know from WMIC, outputs to a text/html/xml/csv file and then copies the file to a network share so you can do diffs/timelining.

for instance

mkdir c:\Inventory
cd c:\Inventory
del *.html
wmic /Append:c:\Inventory\%machinename%-Patches.html qfe get description /translate:nocomma /Format:htable.xsl
xcopy *.html \\centralshare\patchlogs

5/27/2009 2:37:21 PM

SysAid is what my IT dept. uses and I think there is a free version

But, I'm intrigued by this idea ^

5/27/2009 5:24:42 PM