Nope your right, I'm not. If we ran our inventory package to only read from the add/remove program list, then your right it has no system impact. However I really want to know what is installed on the system, so we expand that search to look for executables on all local hard drives. By doing that I know what the user has added that is outside or our system standard. Any program that does that type of search is going to have a disk I/O impact thus have a overall system impact. If I worked in your environment I might change my mind, however I have worked for both large and small organizations and have never felt the need to do software inventory on my production servers. That's just how I choose to do it, not how it has to be done.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:43 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers You're not working for a software development company, are you? Aside from IT managed resources, we have a lot of other users running a lot of applications that are not completely under our control. When you run as many servers as we do (150+) with a handful of admins, having the centralized license compliance reporting is really, REALLY handy. With an implementation like this, we only have to go to one place to find and understand exactly what our license burden is. If you're using an inventory package that puts a noticable load on the machine its inventorying, you bought the wrong package. Roger -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:08 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on > Exchange Servers > > > Simple really, NO. > Why would you need it? All that a software inventory, > management, etc. tool > is going to do is add overhead to a central resource. Have > you had problems > in the past with strange software just showing up on your > servers? We do an > annual inventory check of all our core systems. > We do use EZ-Audit as a quick check point type of software > for our desktop > systems and I have gone as far as setting up a system > variable on all our > servers as a standard, this variable allows us to > specifically exclude our > servers from that package when someone in IT log's on the systems. > I would have to ask management what they are hoping to > achieve by doing > software inventory/metering on a dedicated production system, > then go on > record explaining why that is such a bad idea. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik L. Vesneski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:52 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Slightly OT - Software Management Install on Exchange Servers > > > Hi, > > Management is looking at placing LanDesk software > inventory/metering on > all production clusters, Exchange servers, SQL DBs, etc. across our > company. > > I have worked in companies that implement software inventory solutions > targeting desktops/clients but not to core service IT systems. > > My question is: > What does your company do? How would you 'resolve' this > issue? If your > company does not use software inventory on core systems do they or you > 'work around' the software inventory issue on core systems? > > I know how I inventoried core IT systems in my previous > experiences but > I am interested in what others do/have done. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Erik L. Vesneski > WCDC Intel Lead/Sr. Systems Specialist > ISO - Intel Systems > Ph#: 925-658-6161 > www.pmigroup.com > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
