Pain in the Asset

March 12, 2009 9:07 AM

Mostly mac based school looking for an IT asset tracking system, and an equipment checkout system. (not necessarily combined) There are lots of solutions out there, what has worked in your organization, that you would recommend?

I don't want to be too specific about our goals, things are up in the air and planning is foggy. TrackIT is out for sure (bad past experiences). I'm more interested in the systems that you are proud of, or enjoy using, because they WORK.

posted by parallax7d to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

I dont known if its what your looking for but We use spiceworks here at work for it related stuff. Its free and all you need isa windows pc (doesnt even have to be fast any windows xp machine that you have will be fine).
posted by majortom1981 at 9:42 AM on March 12, 2009

This may be a bit overkill, but I've had good experience with Casper from JAMF Software. They make a complete Mac imaging system that not only re-images your system every time, cleanly and easily in a variety of configurations, it also inventories them, and I believe they had a barcode system to go with it. You can basically take a Mac out of the box brand-new, plug it into the network, and boot it while holding the "N" key for Netboot - it'll image itself, install apps, register with the inventory system, and apply any policies and customizations you need. A great solution if you are logging Macs in and out at an institution where they need to be scrubbed frequently.
posted by GJSchaller at 8:11 PM on March 12, 2009

JAMF Recon sounds interesting. I'm guessing it's costly, but worth checking out, thanks!
posted by parallax7d at 10:11 AM on March 13, 2009