IT Asset Management software

[daffy]

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.

As an unfortunate user of SysAid. Run.

[Akai]

SCCM or SpiceWorks. Even can use Microsoft MAP Toolkit.

[InvisibleJim]

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

Sorry Tim, I have to disagree with you there. I have been using OCS Inventory for quite a while to keep track of a network of 75 or so PC's and associated network equipment over several sites and it has served me quite well. The only maintenance I do is to install agents on the PC's and cleaning out duplicates or removed machines from time to time - I tend to do this manually but there is functionality to automate deployment and the system will detect things like duplicates via MAC address or serial numbers. The originators of OCS claim it is scalable (and used) to manage 1000's of devices (but I'll have to take their word on that.)

What OCS gives you is a snapshot of your environment at a given time. This is useful but it isn't designed to give a historical record of configuration and change. I am currently setting up an iTop server to work with OCS which also contains a helpdesk, CMDB, change management functionality etc. I've come across a couple of minor rough edges with iTop but overall I'm very impressed with it. It is also designed to allow integration with other programs such as OCS and Nagios.

Don't spend money on this type of software until you've checked out the open source alternatives. Products like Sysaid and Spiceworks look pretty slick but you quickly hit limitations with the licensing or get continually bombarded with emails and ads.