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Asset Management and Software Licenses
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We are looking for a way to track software licenses. It is pretty much decided that Asset Management is the place to do this, but my question is how can it be done?
ASKED: Jan 29 2008  3:55 PM GMT
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A prior company I worked at used a product called Deski to gather this informaion for all computers on the network. We basically added running this app from a network share on each login to the workstation. It would then scan the workstation and log all the applications which are installed and all the Keys, etc as well as a bunch of hardware information.

As I remember it wasn't that expensive either. The reporting isn't that great, because it uses a single XM file for each computer, but we loaded the XML files into a SQL Server 2005 database so that we could easily query the data and report off of it.

Another inexpensive alternative for medium sized installations is Audit Wizard, again it works in the login script but gathers tons of information about the machine.
Last Answered: Mar 5 2008  7:43 PM GMT by Jlees   5320 pts.
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Buddyfarr   6835 pts.  |   Mar 5 2008  3:59PM GMT

another software product is spiceworks. it will do hardware and software inventory even across WAN’s. It also has a great helpdesk system built in. It is also free. The system is ad supported but the ads are all IT related and only show up on the IT department’s screens. The system is all web-based. You can find it here:

 

TAW   25 pts.  |   Apr 5 2008  4:15AM GMT

All the suggestions are great, but if your looking for another option, try SteelSonic’s inventory application called SteelInventory . It does a good job of keeping track of your software licenses and alerting you of problems.

It’s FREEWARE so if it doesn’t meet your needs you can move onto something else.

 <a href="http://www.steelsonic.com/steelinventory.htm" title="http://www.steelsonic.com/steelinventory.htm" target="_blank">http://www.steelsonic.com/steelinventory…</a>

 

Kodit   10 pts.  |   Sep 17 2008  1:29PM GMT

Acometl,

Wherever Software License Management is performed, the most important factor is preparing your processes. Inventory tools can be purchased to make the collation of inventory data better, as can license reconciliation engines, but without the correct processes and skills within your organisation the function WILL be destined to fail.

If you are still looking into this, and would like to discuss further please do let me know at <a href="http://www.kodit.com" title="http://www.kodit. " target="_blank">www.kodit.com</a>

 
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