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List:       security-basics
Subject:    RE: Inventory Tools
From:       Rajagopalan Raman <Rajagopalan.Raman () fgb ! ae>
Date:       2008-11-24 7:05:25
Message-ID: 14C868D35E8B514C8AD3E78932111B0467EBE2943B () HOCCRMAIL ! fgb ! ae
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Hi, Try using WinReporter. This gives you plenty of information about the network and it is very cheap.

Raja



-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] On Behalf Of Jeffery Chen Fan
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:15 AM
To: Erik Luken
Cc: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Inventory Tools


the simple way is scripting with WMI.


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Erik Luken <eluken@pentarch.org> wrote:
> I'm no longer with that particular company, and I am trying to recall if I
> did try to expand it out onto the WAN or not. I want to say no, since I was
> only responsible for the hardware in the one particular office. If I recall,
> when it did the scan, it only scanned our network, and not anything outside
> the LAN.
>
> Erik
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Murda Mcloud" <murdamcloud@bigpond.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 6:05 PM
> To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
> Subject: RE: Inventory Tools
>
>> Did you get it to work over a WAN, Eric? Not sure if it natively does this
>> or it would need some jigging.
>>
>> OCS works fine 'on the network' but I have never tried to get it to work
>> across firewalls/routers/different subnets so can't help there.
>>
>>> >-----Original Message-----
>>> >From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com]
>>> >On Behalf Of Erik Luken
>>> >Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:07 AM
>>> >To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
>>> >Cc: Murda Mcloud; 'Mohit Sharma'
>>> >Subject: Re: Inventory Tools
>>> >
>>> >I've gotten Spiceworks to work over a LAN.  Though I do not recall it
>>> >giving
>>> >the keys.
>>> >
>>> >A couple of the machines on my network did not respond to spiceworks,
>>> > >and
>>> >I
>>> >was never able to figure out why (though I did not spend an inordinate
>>> >amount of time attempting to figure it out).
>>> >
>>> >--------------------------------------------------
>>> >From: "Murda Mcloud" <murdamcloud@bigpond.com>
>>> >Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:31 PM
>>> >To: "'Mohit Sharma'" <i.m.cupids.arrow@gmail.com>;
>>> ><security-basics@securityfocus.com>
>>> >Subject: RE: Inventory Tools
>>> >
>>> >> Spiceworks? Not sure if you can get it to work over WAN.
>>> >> Or ocsinventory which is open source.
>>> >> http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> >-----Original Message-----
>>> >>> >From: listbounce@securityfocus.com
>>> >[mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com]
>>> >>> >On Behalf Of Mohit Sharma
>>> >>> >Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:51 PM
>>> >>> >To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
>>> >>> >Subject: Inventory Tools
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >Dear List,
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >I'm looking for some free tools which can be used to collect the
>>> >basic
>>> >>> >asset data (like processor speed, RAM, hard disk space. MS
>>> >>> >windows/Office  version along with keys if possible). I want to use
>>> >>> >these tools over the WAN (connectivity over VSAT to branch >>>
>>> >>> > >locations)
>>> >>> >to track the asset configurations and for licensing compliance
>>> >>> >management purpose.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >I've looked at some options like BMC Discovery and Altris but these
>>> >>> >are expensive tools. Any suggestions will be helpful.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >--
>>> >>> >Regards;
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >Mohit Sharma
>>> >>> >Information Security Manager
>>> >>> >Sahara India Financial Corporation Limited
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >O<  ASCII ribbon campaign - stop HTML mail
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>
>>
>



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