Competition for Belarc Advisor/Manager?

July 7, 2008 12:36 PM

Competition for Belarc Advisor? For a whole network? Mefite reviews?

I'm looking for a hardware/software audit & inventory package for a whole WAN network - if it does patches& vulnerabilities, bonus!

After trying the free-for-home Belarc Advisor, I'm looking at a Small Network Option for the whole operation.

I've only been playing with the demo for a day, but I like pretty much everything - I'm not so in love with the format of the reports, but more information is better than none.

So anyone have any love or hate stories?

Anyone use a different/competing product?

I found Belarc early and liked it - the only competitor I found before it was Hyena, but I was scared off by the "Fully Y2K compliant" section of the website.

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

Best answer: Have you seen spiceworks yet?

Kinda lame name.. Pretty awesome product for free. If you don't mind the advertisement model. I *think* you can pay for it and lose the ads.

I really like it. I use it on our 250+ computer network.
Weeding out the devices it cannot identify is a bit of a pain, but usually something is wrong causing that.
posted by Jonsnews at 1:18 PM on July 7, 2008

Also, if you like the features of belarc, check out System Information for Windows. I always have that on my thumbdrive.
posted by Jonsnews at 1:21 PM on July 7, 2008

You probably are looking for Microsoft SMS for a large network.
posted by damn dirty ape at 1:26 PM on July 7, 2008