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Network Auditing Utility Needed

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by alpha-male 1 view

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I'm looking for a freeware tool that can do a simple audit of systems connected to the LAN. I need it to at least report Processor, RAM, HD info. OS and other details would be gravy. I know Zenworks etc are the ideal products to use, but that's not possible for this project.

I'd like to be able to run the scan transparently from a server and gather a database of details by machine name (plain text, xls, access, or something like that for format).

Any recommendations?

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by mashtifered

Free tool included in W2K and XP.
Type MSINFO32 on the run line, then click View, remote computer. this will give you processor and RAM for any machine on your network.
Right click My Computer and select Manage.
Click Action on the menu bar, andthen select "Connect to another computer". Type the computer name.
You can now click the Disk Management icon, and view all available HDs in the remote machine.
With the above tools, you can view a heck of a lot more than you are looking for, including remote event viewers, devices and conflicts.

by maelgwyn

Umm... if they are all 2k, I would recommend using the Computer Management MMC (or the system performance snapin)

But since I am guessing that you are using 98/95 boxes as well, they may need the snapin installed (it can be done) but have you searched CNET or something like that?

Maelgwyn

by alpha-male

Yes, these are mixed OS machines, 2k, NT4, Win9x. This needs to be done without installing or configuring anything on the client. I have done some searching and found a few things that are interesting (AIDA32 for example), but was hoping to get some"recommended" products from the experts here.

by gigelul

Hi,
You can try BGInfo:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/bginfo.shtml
It have an "database" option and you can configure with a login script to run on every workstation from a share location.
I tested it on WinNT4.0 and Win95 with an excel file as database.

by alpha-male

This was an interesting product and while it didn't end up helping with the solution here, it looks like a decent utility. Thanks for pointing me to it....

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