I am looking to replace the free Spiceworks network monitoring and auditing
system at one of my client sites since it doesn't have any way to list all the
EXEs on a given computer, just those which have gone through the formal Windows
Installer. Now that there are PortableApps versions of many Internet-facing
apps, and since "user"-level users can "install" Google Chrome under MyDocs
without writing to the HKLM\Software area of the registry that the Installer
uses, I *_have_* to be able to inventory this stuff. Also, the client has some
in-house software that doesn't use Windows Installer, and we need to inventory
all the EXEs, including date-time stamp, file-size, and (preferably) a hash
like MD5 or SHAx since the date-time stamp of an EXE isn't maintained when it's
downloaded from an FTP site using IE or Firefox (which is how they often update
their own in-house software).
The BSA has a page listing "free" software audit tools:
Business Software Alliance - Free Software Audit Tools
http://preview.tinyurl.com/a8b2an
http://www.bsa.org/country/Tools%20and%20Resources/Free%20Software%20Audit%20Tools.aspx
but I think most of the links lead to eval copies of non-free auditware like
Novell ZenWorks, although at least one is free (but it doesn't provide what I
want):
NetPoint: Network Inventory Made Simple
"NetPoint Express can be used free of charge on networks of all sizes."
http://www.neutex.net/Download.aspx?ProductGuid=6c6ad8cb-bdf6-41c6-9bc2-
0d3f36da044b http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybs8g93
Has anyone ever seen or used something like this? I found the non-freeware E-Z
Audit http://www.ezaudit.net/default.htm which says it can list all EXEs in a
"Full Audit" but I didn't see any mention of calculating a hash on the EXEs.
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