I'm looking for a software package/solution which will remotely log installed applications and PC names for each PC on my domain. These include 95/98/2000 and XP machines.

The most important requirement is it must be executed remotely, even on 95/98 machines. We don't have the resources to visit each machine individually.

Anybody help?? Or know of a package? Budget of around £3,000 - £4,000.

 

SMS ?, Infratool?, I'm sure Symantec do one also...

 

We use Trackit V5, which is ok for upto a coupla hundred users but gets a bit poo after that, well it is an access db after all

 

as post above, we use track it 5 here and that seems to do the job.

 

Have a look at http://www.richmondsys.co.uk/richmon.../assetdesk.htm

Cheers,

Rob
P1 Web Owners Club.
www.P1woc.co.uk

 

We use DX Pro

Hasn't been installed for long yet, but its deployed in a 600 computer domain.

Not sure on cost.

H

 

Sounds like you need an application logging tool rather than a full asset management system. OpenView will do it but costs a lot, alternatively we deploy SMS for software inventory. For some reason I seem to remember that there's a way of using the AD to track applications, I think the guys at my customer in Holland use this method and it cost the very little to create.

Phil

 

Rik, we provide an asset manager package that will do what u r after and more (hardware inventory, fault logging etc), mail me off line if you are interested and i will give u the details

cheers
Rich

 

The fault logging isn't necessary. The only reason we haven't already bought one of the systems we've looked at already is because they do too much, and therefore cost far too much. One quote was for £70 per PC!!!

1500 x £70 = £105,000!!! LMAO when he quoted me that.

 

One cheapy solution, utilised widely the world over, is to employ a monkey to do it for you. Give them a clipboard and a pen...

Joolz

[Edited by jbryant - 1/27/2003 3:29:51 PM]

 

Presumably the price of a PC literate monkey, or even that of training a monkey to be PC literate would far surpass that of a cheap automated software package.

Wouldn't it?

 

We use Visual Audit pro. if I recall correctly it was cheap. The audit runs in our nt login script. The program is customisable so that it only runs every x days and if its not one of those days it just terminates, does not need installing anywhere and once setup properly runs like a charm. Download an eval 5 pc demo version from www.visionsoft.com

 

Will do - cheers.

 

Looks like Visual Audit Pro is the one for me - £495 for a site license. - Bargain.