License Management

[johnherman]

My boss is looking for a better way to track client and server licenses; including version(s), expiration/renewal dates, computer installed on, remarks, etc.

My current solution is a spreadsheet, which I think is (at least) adequate.

Anyone have any other methods of managing client and server licenses?

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

 

[EBGreen]

SMS.

[red]"... isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway?! I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you are good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" - The Tick[/red]

 

[wlfpackr]

We're using Track-It! from Intuit. Seems to do a good job once you eliminate a lot of the B.S.


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[CptnTrips]

Altiris Notification Server. We have used SMS, Intuit TrackIt!, and a couple of others. Altiris is a great alternative to SMS. It will manage and track software licenses, versions, hardware information, OS info, basically every piece of information about every device on your network. It will inventory systems running Unix, Linux, Netware, Windows, Macs, handhelds, pretty much everything that connects to your network. It has bery nice reporting capabilities, as well as great monitoring tools that notify you of particular changes, expirations, installations of unwanted software, etc.