[K12OSN] Audit techniques? off-topic?
Quentin Hartman (qhartman@lane.k12.or.us)
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:00:35 -0700
This might be swaying a little off-topic as it is only pseudo-relevant to
linux machines, so move along if you are a major "Topic Lawyer".
;)
Here's the deal: I am trying to work on an internal audit of hardware and
software in my district so we will be prepared when the Giant of the North
(inevitably?) comes knocking. I am curious what tricks any of you might
have come up with to make the process of collecting information from
computers go more quickly and smoothly. I have looked at software from
Belarc and Lanauditor, which would be ideal, but are far too costly for my
poor little school district; that money could buy a lot of books (or
licenses for OS's for that matter...).
I am considering putting together a web-driven database system using
filemaker (I would use SQL, but I don't think I know it well enough to get
it running in the relatively small timeframe I have for this project), but
that still means a lot of manual entry. I have found a program called
FreshDiagnose which will suck out all the information about the computer,
but it doesn't put store it in a particularly useful format, and I wonder
if it might end up being more work than manual entry.
-Thanks for any suggestions-
-Quentin-
Tech Support Specialist
Fern Ridge School District
Elmira, OR
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