IT Asset Management software

[tUrbZ]

Hi there,

I'm looking for a free software program so that I can keep track of all the IT assets in my company.

Things like serial numbers, cpu etc.

Any thoughts?

[R4tt3xx]

Spiceworks

[danlr]

An access database?

Or if your company uses Pastel or another similar accounting software package you might use the built in functionality?

[srothman]

Software is only going to help you SO far. Maintaining it is a constant effort, and one that is often neglected.

Depending on how large your organization is, the right person with an Excel spreadsheet and good pivot table knowledge might be all you need.

We are a Dell house, and in that we make extensive use of IT Assistant in our organization, which is great for keeping records current and doing tasks like firmware updates, etc.

[teraside]

Spiceworks

I despise it as an asset management solution. My advice is and will always be a barcode system with real asset tagging software and tools, best done by an asset management firm. It's an IT department's biggest time waster and headache to keep tabs on assets.

[PallBearer]

SysAid

[koeksGHT]

I despise it as an asset management solution. My advice is and will always be a barcode system with real asset tagging software and tools, best done by an asset management firm. It's an IT department's biggest time waster and headache to keep tabs on assets.

This, the municipality down here uses barcoded metal stickers for all their assets. Almost impossible to take off with the superglue they use. And it links to their database.

[ambo]

Racktables should cover most of what you need.

[InvisibleJim]

I've been using OCS Inventory NG for the last 3 or 4 years for this sort of thing. Free and open source based on php/MySql/Apache with an agent that you load on client computers

http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/

[katangeleus]

Software is only going to help you SO far. Maintaining it is a constant effort, and one that is often neglected.

Depending on how large your organization is, the right person with an Excel spreadsheet and good pivot table knowledge might be all you need.
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QTF --- I use this, http://www.kzsoftware.com/products/a...ment-software/ but unless you have somebody dedicated to this, it is always a hassle to update. I would say the best person to handle the assets is anybody in procurement as when they buy, they should be adding or updating the database or spreadsheet. No equipment leaves them before they have added it to the system.

[ponder]

Use a software based system that pulls serial numbers from the computers and inventories everything.

[ghalied]

we use sccm

[Tim the Techxpert]

This is one of the areas where free is not necessarily the best route. Keeping it all up to date is more trouble than initially loading it.
You also need to make sure that it collects onformation about the software that you have loaded as that has license implications certainly with Microsoft.
CA has products that do the function but they do come at a price.
I will do a little more research for you but I believe that a working solution is going to cost you money.

Regards

Tim

[daffy]

RFCode...
Possibly the best implementation of RFID asset tagging you'll ever find
http://www.rfcode.com/

We use them to keep track of servers, as we ship them around the world from Datacentre to Datacentre. Probably overkill for your typical small office, but its also handy to keep an eye on theft. If the tag stops responding for a while, its worth going hunting for the hardware to see if it's still around.

[Tim the Techxpert]

Ok spent a bit of time last night looking around. SysAid has softwrae that will handle the issues you have and for up to 100 users it is free.
Moving up to one which is a purchase only option is Express. It will manage the product from purchase to disposal including licence management and if the software is being used.
For you turBz it is not free but you can have a free evaluation of up to 25 workstations to see if it will work out.
Let us know how you get on

Tim