Licenses inventory program for NDS

[storm197]

Hi,

Is there a program existing to have a complete inventory listing of all licenses installed on my network's machines?

We are on Netware 6 server and using NDS.

Thanx

 

[eao]

Yep. It's called TS.Census by Tally Systems Corp. Visit

http://www.tallysystems.com/.

 

[eao]

Whoops. Forgot to mention it's not just software, but hardware as well. It works on WinXX platforms, as well as Unix. Macintosh is not supported.

 

[storm197]

Well, unfortunately, I found no tril or no demos.

What I'm testing right now is E-Z Audit, (

http://www.ezaudit.net)

which at the first look gives me all what I need. Unfortunately, their costumers service is really poor.

 

[eao]

There is a demo in which your workstation is scanned over the web. It's really worth looking for. We use this product, we have 3000 workstations, so we are heavy users.

 

[storm197]

Yeah, but how are the workstation scanned?

Are they scanned automaticly?

How do you run the scanner program? Can you push it remotly?

And How big is that scanner program?

E-Z audti which i'm testing right now consist of a 300 Kb file running on a Pc (called by a login script) and take like 2 sec to run each friday.

 

[eao]

Workstations can be scanned automatically at login, scans can be initiated from the Manager application, or can be forced from a command line at the workstation. Workstations Information Files (WIFs) are collected on the server which contain all the component data about your workstation. Once the WIF is built, the client on your workstation sends that file to a collection server, which interprets it and passes it to a database (MS SQL2000). The first time a workstation is scanned the WIF is about 200-300k, and subsequent scans are about 20-30k.

You can set up collection schedules to scan workstations at whatever frequency you like.

 

[storm197]

Ok,

As I see it, it's doing quite the same thing that EZ-Audit.

What is the price? EZ-Audit is retailled from 200$ (1 site) to 3000$ (unlimited sites)

 

[eao]

TS.Census is licensed at around $15-18 per workstation license. 100 Workstations will cost you about $1500. EZ-Audit may appear cheaper, but look at both and decide which has the greater ROI.

Does EZ-Audit track application usage? Changes to workstation configurations? How is the data stored and accessed? Who has access to this data and how is it controlled? Can you define your own products to be detected by EZ-Audit?

 

[storm197]

Well, EZ audit doesn't track the software usage, but do tell us what is installed on the workstation (which is my principal need).

We have about 5000 workstation so I personnaly think that a 3 000$ unlimited licence would best fit for our organisation. But thanx a lot for your help on this.

Nicolas Loiselle
loisellen@gw.csrs.qc.ca

 

[eao]

EZ-Audit sounds like a good fit for your organization. Good luck!