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IT Asset Management

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I'm looking for a solution for keeeping track of machines on a 600 machine domain.
Details will need to include manufacture, model, serial numbers aswell as lease/purchase details.

At the moment we are using an Access database. Does anyone have any ideas?
 
Kaseya is pretty awesome, it incorporates the following - I've been using at work for the past few years

http://www.kaseya.com/

Inventory -Software and hardware

Backups - server and workstations - Using acronis echo server

network wide scripts -reboot - install packages

restore - server and workstations

patch management - servers and workstations - you can use this to view dependancies and risk to particular patches

service desk/help desk ticketing

performance monitoring - email alerts

remote access to servers and workstations via rdp, vnc, dameware, pc anywhere agents

anti-virus management

incorporates AD - LDAP user management

- Does cost a pretty penny , but it's worth it - we manage about 1200 workstations with this with ease
 
If you are just looking for something to note inventory but not a full management sweet, Kaseya, SCCM, Landesk, Bigfix, and so on are a bit overkill. I am sure there is a solution out there somewhere that is used just for your assets. But if not the first three things you are asking for can easily be scripted. You can access the make, model, and serial #(iie. for dell it would be the service tag) of a machine directly from the bios using a WMI query. Then it would be upto your programming skills and how you would like to store that info.
 
I'd also recommend any package you look at have a license module; so you can keep track of those in the same place.

I'm interested what recommendations pop up, I have yet to see a decent package to cover this.
 
Kaseya also supports licensing, tells you whats installed and where so you can cross reference your total amount of licenses
 
thanks for the suggestions

xenios is right, I'm mainly looking for applications aimed at asset management, not so much monitoring and control etc.
 
This old thread may have a few useful suggestions. I'll repeat my suggestion of Open-AudIT. I believe it's pretty straightforward to script remote audits (though I haven't used that feature myself) so it can handle big networks fairly well.
 
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