Comments on: Track my Assets

Question: Track my Assets

jasondigitized — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:54:51 -0800

I have been tasked with creating a I.T. Asset Management / Inventory Process for my company. We are a relatively small shop so investing in a big framework / system would be overkill. We have maybe 200+ nodes, 20 Servers, 20 laptops, 20 Blackberrys, 15 Network Printers. Essentially I would like to track inventory from procurement to disposal. Anyone have a good approach, methodology, or system that I could follow? Do I need a label maker, a spreadsheet, a WMI script? I have no clue where to start and how to do this following some best practice.

By: SirStan

SirStan — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:34:58 -0800

With a budget of $0, I was somewhat forced to use OCS Inventory. Now that we are using it, I find it extremely useful, and works extremely well with Windows Desktops/Laptops.

This doesn't help you with tracking at all, but it pulls all kinds of "whats really out there" data for you. It helped me validate our serial #'s on monitors/desktops.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:58:39 -0800

seconding OCS inventory for bits of what you're asking: it takes the place of the spreadsheet and WMI script.

By: crypticgeek

crypticgeek — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:06:46 -0800

Why not just slap on some inventory stickers and throw together an access db? I think there is probably an inventory db template for access too.