Inventory programs/hardware on servers

[farmera]

I need help taking an inventory of multiple Dell servers running Windows 2k and 2003. We had staffing change and I'm in over my head. I'm mostly PC/app support! Any suggestions on how to get a listing of installed programs and hardware would be greatly appreciated!

I'm hoping there is a program or something I'm missing to help.

Thanks,

Angie

 

[LawnBoy]

AIDA32 was excellent, but it's discontinued. It's successor is Everest, but I haven't used it. Everest can be found at

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/everest.html

 

[stussy]

You can also use Belarc. I've used the free personal version, but have no experience of the Network / Commerce tool. Very good on the installed software / patches / logins front as well as all the hardware.

http://www.belarc.com/belmanage.html

HTH

Mike

 

[AndrewTait]

In the past I have used the software mvPCinfo. It is a nice little tool, and not very expensive either.

Gives you a list of all the software, and hardware for a particular machine.

You can run it from the command line, and so is great for running from login scripts, not jsut for what you are after.

There is also a backend database available for it, which helps with the production of reports.

http://www.mvpcinfo.com/PCinfo/intro.htm

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

 

[adpwl1]

I guess it depends on what exactly you want to inventory. If you want hardware inventory, the Dell supplied, free tool, OpenManage may do the trick.

 

[PaulGillespie]

Try Alloy software, search for NINA.exe, i use it on all my clients, free auditing for upto 25 clients.