I am curious to see how some of you guys do a computer inventory. I work for a small school district and have been given the task again this year to do an inventory on all of our 1500 computers. I have been instructed to physically go to each machine spanning 4 campus and write down the serial number and computer name. This is driving me crazy... how do you guys do yours?

Thanks in advance

In my company I have each computer barcoded and recorded in a SQL database. At the time of inventory I just go around and scan the computer's barcode and I have a program that tells me which computer's I have missed and where they are supposed to be at the time. I mean you could use RFID and that would make it really simple but there is an initial cost there. Anyway, that is how I do it.

are the PCs in a domain? makes things much easier

I used two free sw packages: winventory and ocs ng.
google them up - it's much easier than barcodes or any tangible physical work at all.

They are in a domain however I have computer's that are scattered throughout the country. I will check out those packages you posted though. Thanks.

hi you can get a lot of inventory programs which are opensource and you change it according to your requirements

Project URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocsinventory

here is your program u require but change according to your requirement

bye

Spiceworks

I'd like to also +1 to OCSng. Really helps me with Inventory.