Collect Serial Numbers

overcooled-xp · 25 Nov 2009 at 22:04

Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

Got a job tomorrow where I need to collect a load of serial numbers from about 50-70 hp thin clients, 10+ laptops, printers and so on. Is there anyway I can run any software which will grab all the info I need instead of me walking around to every unit. Lazy I know, but this could save me a lot of time.

Thanks in advance,

Sin_Chase · 25 Nov 2009 at 22:10

I looked into this, there was some that claimed the earth but had drawbacks, others needed just as much prepwork than would have paid of for so little machines.

What keys do you need to pull, OS ones I am assuming if thin clients?

overcooled-xp · 25 Nov 2009 at 22:22

Just need to pull serial numbers and product numbers of the thin clients. They are all running windows ce I think. I know I can do this with pc's as I have done it before but not sure if I can do this on Thin clients.

Sin_Chase · 25 Nov 2009 at 23:10

Connect to remote registry and try a couple of key extraction apps perhaps?

Euphoria · 26 Nov 2009 at 19:57

Do the thin clients have anything running on them at all? We use centennial at work but the microsoft do have a desktop optimisation pack out

bigredshark · 26 Nov 2009 at 20:01

In theory something like insight manager could probably grab the data, it can certainly get it from servers. Would likely need SNMP of similar configured though and I'm not even sure the thin clients support that. I imagine there is an easy way though, plenty of companies have huge numbers of these deployed and they'll need to audit them...

morfmedia · 26 Nov 2009 at 20:23

If WMI can query it there is a cool MS app that will do most of the coding for you and do a loop through a text file with the machine names in

It's called Scriptomatic although I think they were updating it to powershell

iaind · 26 Nov 2009 at 20:49

You're unlikely to get much from a CE machine remotely to be honest

Just get a barcode scanner and get on with it!

overcooled-xp · 26 Nov 2009 at 22:08

Did the job today, luckily I did not have to get all of the serial numbers in the end so it saved me a whole lot of time. Think next time I am in the office I will grab a barcode scanner and use this in future. Thanks for all your advice.

nrh1703 · 30 Nov 2009 at 23:32

morfmedia said:
If WMI can query it there is a cool MS app that will do most of the coding for you and do a loop through a text file with the machine names in

It's called Scriptomatic although I think they were updating it to powershell

i haven't used scriptomatic but gpinventory does a good job of getting wmi info from machines specified in a text file or from an ad domain.

Netvyper · 1 Dec 2009 at 08:48

re: thin clients. You should be able to do an export from whatever management software they're using.
Glad you didn't have to though

#Chri5# · 1 Dec 2009 at 09:32

I've not tried it against Thin Clients but Spiceworks does a good job of hoovering up equipment details via a network scan. Dead simple to try and there's a free version which has small adverts built in.