Dear LOPSA Discuss, I manage a relatively small-scale site which includes a couple hundred nodes at the head office and a branch office of about a dozen nodes. We want to get some basic inventory management in place. We're the usual mix of OS platforms (e.g. mostly MS Windows on the desktop and a balanced mix of MS Windows and RedHat Linux on the servers).
We've got OCS running (http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/). It's not a very broad feature-set so if there's some good ways to extend it, it may work better for us. The other application we've tried is Asset Explorer (http://www.manageengine.com/products/asset-explorer/) which is cheap but is quite unreliable. Stuff like users and PCs dropping out of the system. And their support is not helpful. So we'd like to not break the bank. We'd like to stay under $1000 or at least in that range. We want an application which will periodically scan PCs for hardware + software changes and which we can use to manage licenses by requiring appropriate license info for applications and which will identify where we've got gaps. Our budget isn't big, it's not like we've got vendors banging on our door saying "you've stolen a million in software! we're suing you into the stone age!", we just want some way to manage systems such that if John blows up his PC on a lark, we will know what was on there and be able to replace his system h/w+s/w in a straightforward manner. Thanks, -- Dominic L "God makes stars. I just produce them." - Samuel Goldwyn .o. ..o ooo _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
