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| 823357 | 2009-10-23 05:57:00 | +1 for spiceworks. Although its a little "fat" on the web based front end (i.e. it can be a bit slow). I've just a had a brief play with it, and I agree - the web UI is a little slow, but it's acceptable. It seems like a pretty cool product, especially since it's free. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 823358 | 2009-10-23 06:12:00 | Hey guys, Thanks for all the replies, I'll have look at the solutions soon. Somebody, would rather not do a spreadsheet as, I'd like ability to filter things and create reports. CyaBro over 250 |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 823359 | 2009-10-23 20:47:00 | Hey guys, We don't really want to install software on every client so that kinda rules out OCSInventory. I'm having a few issues with Spiceworks, it keeps crashing on my test machine, so will have to take some time and see if I can get it going next week. Cheers. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 823360 | 2009-10-23 20:54:00 | Did some testing myself on that spiceworks , one of the requirements is all the PC's have to be able to accept remote desktop connections, so it could be a big job to enable this on 250+ PC's if its not already activated. Does take a bit of time to scan all PC's. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 823361 | 2009-10-23 21:23:00 | Hey Wainui Yea remote desktop won't be enabled on most of the systems. The scanning isn't as important to us as the actual storing and querying of the information. We have a reasonably good idea of what most of the systems are at the moment. Cheers. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 823362 | 2009-10-23 21:37:00 | Oh dear it looks as though you are lumbered with Office - and not MSWorks - a far superior program for this sort of work. The type of database you are wanting would take me about 30 seconds to layout in MSWorks. It would give all the reports and filters you could want. It produces flat files not relational databases. Which frankly I have never found a problem. I suggest you get a copy - but preferably an old one. I use ver4.5 (1997) as its much simpler better and faster than the later ones. Done dozens and dozens of dbases using it and find I rarely use a spreadsheet - which are also better and simpler in MSWorks. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 823363 | 2009-10-23 21:40:00 | When I tried it here yesterday, only one of the PC's has remote desktop enabled, it was the only one that allowed a gathering of Information over the LAN, (apart from the Host PC of course) the others showed up as unknown devices - and while their Network names showed, that was all the info it gave. It did pick up the Two Network printers giving full info, apart from the fact it read the toner levels completely inaccurate. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 823364 | 2009-10-24 01:26:00 | Thomas if was going to spend the time creating a database it would be a relational access db, that's where my existing knowledge is and that's the software we've got. Works is a tad old. Cheers Wainui, I'm thinking that if I really wanted to use spiceworks I could probably enable remote desktop via GP anyway, but atm can't even get it working in test environment so we'll see. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 823365 | 2009-10-24 01:33:00 | Thomas if was going to spend the time creating a database it would be a relational access db, that's where my existing knowledge is and that's the software we've got. Works is a tad old. Cheers Wainui, I'm thinking that if I really wanted to use spiceworks I could probably enable remote desktop via GP anyway, but atm can't even get it working in test environment so we'll see. What sort of problems are you having with it in your test environment? |
somebody (208) | ||
| 823366 | 2009-10-24 01:34:00 | Hi Stormdragon, If you're prepared to shell out the big bucks for it, I suggest you take a look at Infra Enterprise - it's very, very good. Delta (http://www.delta.co.nz/) is the local vendor for this. |
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