I should add that their process includes automatically discovering new devices every hour on every subnet (think 1300+ subnets) and loading the agent and doing some other stuff to the boxes.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Asset Inventory (OT) > > One of my clients has it loaded on about 90,000 devices. They have the > whole process of loading it automated ... Loading agents by hand is > silly in anything but the smallest cases. I believe you can even assign > the SMS3 agent by group policy. I'm not real familiar with the product > so I'm not the best to ask about actually using it, but from what I've > seen its incredibly powerful if used correctly. > > Thanks, > Brian Desmond > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > c - 312.731.3132 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tashildar, Dinesh (Cognizant) > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:47 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Asset Inventory (OT) > > > > > > Do you really think, SMS is a best tool for hardware inventory for > > Enterprise network? > > I fell, Agent based software is very difficult to manage. We (system > > admin) spend most of time to install agents on desktops. > > Brian, how is your experience on SMS for hardware inventory? > > > > Regards, > > Dinesh Tashildar > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian > Desmond > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 8:40 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Asset Inventory (OT) > > > > I'm missing why nobody has mentioned SMS - www.microsoft.com/sms. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Brian Desmond > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > c - 312.731.3132 > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ActiveDir- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair, James > > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:30 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Asset Inventory (OT) > > > > > > > > > > > > > Dinesh, > > > > > > > > Have a look at http://www.ezaudit.com/ . We have been using this > tool > > > with great success over the past couple of years. It is > configurable > > > and I use a Group Policy to update our records every three > > months...The > > > product has risen slightly in price since we got it but it is still > > in > > > my mind reasonable. Have a look at the free evaluation. > > > > > > > > James Blair > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tashildar, > > > Dinesh (Cognizant) > > > Sent: Tuesday, 2 May 2006 11:03 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Asset Inventory (OT) > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think managing asset (Specially, desktops, laptops and servers) > is > > > the biggest challenge. It would be great, if some one have any > idea. > > > I normally run wmi script and grab output in excel sheet but I am > > > looking some database system in background and some more > intelligent > > > front-end software. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Dinesh Tashildar > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, > > > Russ > > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:39 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [ActiveDir] Asset Inventory (OT) > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of > > the > > > Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be > > > confidential or privileged. > > > > > > > > This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only > by > > > the addressee. 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