I have no direct experience with this type of software, but there are software packages available to perform "inventory" of your network. There was a discussion a few months back on the k12ltsp email list. One that sticks in my head is called OCS Inventory.
-Rob Agustín Benito wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I'm involved in a migration to software libre project in 31 municipalities in > the south of Spain. One of our first tasks is to know what apps are public > workers using and the hardware components of their PCs and laptops. We need a > semiautomatic way of doing this. It also have to be fast and clean. > > We have been thinking about doing something like this > > 1.- Prepare a ltsp server, take it to any municipality and plug it to the > switch. Disable its dhcp server if they have any. We will use ltsp one. > 2.- Turn on every computer with a ltsp bootable cd > 3.- Draw in a map where the computers are and the name of each user, to > identify user-computer-information obtained. > 4.- Modify some booting scripts so, during the boot process, the thin client: > a.- do not boot the X server, we are not going to use any graphics. > b.- exec #dmesg > c.- identify the mac of the network card > d.- save the dmesg output of the client in the server using the thin > client's mac as the name of the .txt archive (00_22_21_ae_16_32_hw.txt, for > example) > e.-show the MAC on the screen so a technician can identify the computer in > the map and the user that works with that computer. > f.- mount the hard disk > g.- list all the archives, directories and its heriarchy from the hard disc > of the computer and save it on the server in a .txtfile. The file's name will > be related again with the MAC (34_12_07_15_a3_c7_apps.txt) > h.- umount the harddisk > i.- Eject the cd and press enter > j.- Turn off the thin client automaticaly > 5.- Check if we have every archive needed > 6.- Turn off the ltsp server > > Once we get both archives from every computer, we'll manipulate them using > bash scripting to filter the information needed like .exe or .bat files, the > cpu of every computer, etc. > > We will begin to configure this next week but before that, do you have any > suggestion?, do you know anybody that have done something like this? What > kind of problems do you think we are going to face? Is there any easier way > to do this? > > Thanks in advance ******************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
