Network Audit Tool

Kingy · 21 Jun 2006 at 10:50

Hi all,

Do you any of you know of a Network Audit Tool that I can install on my laptop and take to client sites and collate information spec's etc about the nodes on the network?

Burnsy2023 · 21 Jun 2006 at 14:19

I doubt it, I've been looking at this recently and all the decent software like Netsupport DNA and Symantec's product that i've forgotten the name of all require licencing per client.

They also usually require a client application to be deployed.

There is some freeware software that i've come across but it's not very good and limited to what it can collect.

Burnsy

Kingy · 21 Jun 2006 at 15:09

burnsy2023 said:
There is some freeware software that i've come across but it's not very good and limited to what it can collect.

How is it limited? what doesn't it collect? What's it called? Have you got a link?

bitslice · 21 Jun 2006 at 16:04

you might find something here useful:

http://www.nscan.org/
http://www.nessus.org/
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

Commercial software is basically the stuff listed above with a pretty front end.

for work I use PsInfo.exe from:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html
and write a script to scan for the bit's of info I need

what kind of network info do you need ?

Kingy · 21 Jun 2006 at 17:39

bitslice said:
what kind of network info do you need ?

Mainly hardware and software installed on each PC, it's name, it's model, it's ip address etc...

bitslice · 21 Jun 2006 at 18:39

you'll be pulling info off PCs, so get the client to create a disposable domain account for you.

then run this (I'm not at work but I think it'll work)

psinfo \\* -s -c -u domainadmin -p domainpassword > c:\log-CSV.txt

you'll hopefully get a CSV log of all PC's with hardware/software installed.

I kinda wonder why the client hasn't got this info to hand already ?
:-)