Network system hardware audit?!

R.O.S.S.I · 2 May 2012 at 14:23

Hi all, what is the best way to get all system info and hardware specs of machines on my network without going round 1 by 1 and writing down the CPU speed, ram, hdd space, os version etc?

Is there a free util that can be ran which goes out over the network and fetches this info or is that a big ask?

Saundie · 2 May 2012 at 14:28

Spiceworks is the first thing that springs to mind; it will collect all of the hardware specifications of any system it can query on your network. It's ad-support rather than free, though, which may put you off. There are probably many others (hopefully you'll get some more suggestions!).

Kona* · 2 May 2012 at 14:37

We have successfully rolled out Snow Inventory to one of our clients and it works flawlessly, it was reasonably priced too.

Linky: http://snowsoftware.com/website1/1.0.1.0/9/2/

GhostlyPea · 2 May 2012 at 14:40

I'e used Spiceworks before as a demonstration for the type of technology and it worked well. I didn't like the adverts but for free you can't complain

- GP

Relentless81 · 2 May 2012 at 14:45

Dameware NT Utilities, we aren't allowed to use it anymore, sad times

kefkef · 2 May 2012 at 14:52

We use LANSweeper now, it's not too dear and means we have pretty much binned a massive (one of the largest in Eurpope) Centennial implementation off the back of it!

Saundie · 2 May 2012 at 15:07

Dameware is pretty great, and not hugely expensive. I used Alloy Navigator at my previous job and it was awesome, but it's also expensive and probably overkill, especially if all you want is the CPU/RAM/HDD of each PC on your network.

PistolPete · 2 May 2012 at 16:19

Do you have SNMP installed and configured or will you need to push an agent of some sort out to all machines?

Lanz · 2 May 2012 at 20:24

Open Audit will do what you want, and its free.

K.C. Leblanc · 2 May 2012 at 20:48

You could also knock something together with some scripting and PSINFO.

Hulkster · 3 May 2012 at 12:31

I was also going to suggest PSINFO.

How many machines are we talking? If iwere talking a fairly low number and a one off exercise, all you would need is a list of the PC names in a text file, and you can point the psinfo command to the list.

Of the top of my head the command is literally "psinfo @mylist.txt" but don't quote me

www.sysinternals.com

anything I don't mind · 3 May 2012 at 13:29

use power shell scripts, its free.

http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/data...t-powershell-do-an-inventory-of-your-servers/