Re: [K12OSN] Audit techniques? off-topic?
Kirk Rheinlander (kirk@kpj2.com)
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:31:41 -0600
Don't know how good or bad this is, but http://www.emco.is/pricelist.html
would do some 5000 computers for under $1500, and it can read the registry,
scan the disk, or a couple other ways of finding what is out there in
Mickeysoft land. It supports a number of formats for output, so this might
be the trick - still, $1500 is a lot of money in a school system.....
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Networking/Network_Management/ has a
number of links to other sources....
Kirk
At 11:00 AM 4/24/2002, Quentin Hartman wrote:
>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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