Free tech inventory tracking system?

February 6, 2006 7:57 AM

Looking for a free technology inventory/tracking system for my company.

We send laptops and various other tech items around the country and I'm looking for some kind of freeware (including MS Access projects) to manage our inventory. Might include type of item (computer, printer, hubs, cables, etc) and have fields for model name, serial #, software installed, etc. Has anyone stumbled upon anything like this? Quick searches on Google and Sourceforge haven't yielded anything of particular interest.

posted by Ekim Neems to computers & internet (2 comments total)

It wasn't free, but we ended up going with KCSI SIMMS software for our in-house inventory control.

It lets you set up different "locations" that you can move various pieces of inventory back and forth between. It might be overkill for you, but it would work well if you had a fixed number of locations you send these items to. We paid about $500 for a single-user license that runs on our internal Windows-based network.
posted by jacobsee at 9:08 AM on February 6, 2006

I'm also interested in any recommendations. (Oh heck, I'll just say it: Me too!)

I use WMIX for remotely keeping tabs on PCs, and I am considering stepping up to their GoverLan product for it's multiple-machine query capabilities. The software has some odious activation requirements, even as a paid customer. (hint: Don't wipe the PC that WMIX is installed on before deactivating that license) but otherwise I've been happy.

I've also considered building a Visio front-end up w/ a SQL back-end, but that has always seemed like an awful lot of wheel reinvention. MSFT used to ship a version of Visio that was supposed to do LAN discovery, but it was SNMP-based, and frankly, if I was gonna have to visit each item to enable snmp, I might as well have written down the Asset data while I was at it.

I've always thought that what I really needed was the software that libraries use to track books: I want to "check out" the server to the customer "SF Datacenter Rack 16" for "3 years"
posted by Triode at 10:03 AM on February 6, 2006