=> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Hart => Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 17:26 => To: ProFox Email List => Subject: RE: Computer Hardware and Software Inventory => => Hi Hal => => If you look at the SIW product there is a Licences Branch => which shows all the product keys for (I presume) the => products which require a valid license. Some how they have => collected the information from the registry and unscrambled => it to show the original product key, for example, when you => install Windows XP you install with the 25 digit product key => supplied by M$, The registry only shows the product serial => no. as shown on the first tab of the computer properties => dialogue. There are a number of products out there like => Magic Jelly bean and Rock XP which will decode this => information for you but SIW.exe is the only one that I have => found that I can interrogate the resultant report and run => from within VFP. I would like to do this using WMI or some => other solution. Someone knows how to do it but I cant find => that information. => Michael Hawthorne's suggestion is both too expensive and => does not give the other information required, however it => does fit the bill in terms of its ability to reach out over => a network and its ability to give information in real time. => At the moment I am running SIW to produce a HTML report then => selecting the report and parsing it out to various tables, => each table has a field which holds the Computer Name, and => the data can be viewed for a single computer (What make and => Model Mother Board is fitted) or say all the Windows XP => Licences/Product Codes for the whole company. But, to => collect the data SIW has to be run on each machine in turn => then collated on the master computer, so is only accurate at => the time it is run therefore needing to be run again if any => software is added/removed or changes are made to the => hardware. I want to run the whole set of procedures on the => master on a daily or weekly basis then notify the manager of => any changes. I can reach out and interrogate the registrys => remotely but can't decode the product ID's. => Hope this is clearer. => => Thanks to Michael for his suggestion. => => Peter => I did not see Michael's post on this subject.
I think real-time is overkill unless you are dealing with mission-critical data (are you?). A periodic status update should do the trick unless you have a particular need at a particular moment. I am quite surprised that you can get product key information so easily (although not as easy as you would like) and I have no idea how to accomplish this or even where to begin. Sorry I cannot help more and best of luck to you in finding a solution that I hope you will share with us. B+ HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
