how would you keep tally of which computers are free (around 400 of them)

[Pate]

Currently I'm at a company which has a few floors of staff. They are having problems with allocating people, and I've been charged with goijg around every so often with a map of the building plotting where the free ones are.

Surely there must be some software or a method within xp for monitoring the pcs and churning out data on which ones are consistently free?

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Pate]

I'm not sure everyone uses the same pc all the time, though I'm sure they do most of the time.

How best could you collate such information?

 

[Pate]

Maybe it would be possible to do by pc station instead of users? The computers are in clusters with each desk with a id code.

 

[Pate]

Not sure about finding out who logged in and when. But if you want a way to view which ones are free that specific moment, we use software called impero which lets you remote in to each system, but it also displays every system and shows you if anyone is logged in or not.

Thanks ill have a look at it now.

When I see threads like this I just laugh at how bad some company's IT departments are.

If you're posting a question like this on a forum, I'd suggest you shouldn't be working in IT.

Thanks for your useful input.

I don't work in IT you muppet, I'm merely trying to be helpful to the company.

 

[Pate]

Some really helpful replies here, I'm on the worlds worst mobile phone (antiquated blackberry) so will peruse properly once I'm home.

Thanks, GD is a superb place.


P.s sorry for calling you a muppet Estenbanray, my temper ran away with me. Won't happen again.