Finding out specs of a computer through network?

[ajstan]

Does anybody know a piece of software that can go through a network and make a log file of its specification (RAM, CPU speed etc)

Cheers

 

[rainbow6six]

I would start by searching for SNMP products?

 

[Confused]

I used Aida32 a few years back, set to run on the login script.

It would check whether it had been run within the last month, if not, it would do the full scan (hardware, software etc) and then save the results to a central directory, with the files named by PC hostname.

 

[Saundie]

Do you want to do it for multiple computers, or just one? If it's for a single machine, you can use the systeminfo command;

systeminfo /s [i]<computername/IP>[/i]

You can have it dump the information into a txt file, too;

systeminfo /s [i]<computername/IP>[/i] /fo list > c:\spec.txt

If you want to get the specifications of multiple machines, it'd be best to look into something like SpiceWorks.

 

[ajstan]

No its for around a 100 computers, thanks for responses guys

 

[LizardKing]

Spiceworks,

 

[DJMK4]

Sentenial or Centenial, it scans network devices and I believe it can tell you machine specs, what OS is installed, certain configuration and a list of installed programmes.

Probably not free though.

 

[Django x2]

bginfo and write to SQL

 

[kefkef]

Sentenial or Centenial, it scans network devices and I believe it can tell you machine specs, what OS is installed, certain configuration and a list of installed programmes.

Probably not free though.

If you want to buy it for constant use, it can be anything from £5 to £20 per licence depending on how many you buy (i bought 16000 of the buggers! ) . I think you can download a 30 day eval though that will let you try it out, though not sure how many PC's it would discover.

 

[Banzai_Joe]

another for spiceworks

 

[m4cc45]

Centennial if you want a professional auditing tool. Spiceworks if you want something that is basic and does the job.



M.

 

[Saundie]

bginfo and write to SQL

Ah, I'd forgotten that BGInfo can be used for reporting. That's the route I'd go down, personally, although Spiceworks would be quicker to set up.

 

[chaosophy]

If systeminfo gives the info you are after just put a list of servers in a txt file and write a batch file, you can do it in one line.

wmic, is another great little command line tool for interrogating WMI, if you are into batch files.

I'm doing a similar audit of some servers at work, if I remember tomorrow I'll post some of the things we are using.