Question : Application or script we can schedule to gather information from PC like OS version, Service Pack level etc etc

Hi

We have a helpdesk system ASPX / SQL for logging calls etc, I want to get our guys who developed it to enable it to hold info for asset regsiter,

Is there a script or application that i can push out to all client machines maye via a GPO to gather information such as machine name, OS, Service Pack, Processor, memeory etc etc, then ideally upload to a DB or at the very least write it to a shared driectory, then i can ask them to write an import peice to populate the DB.

Im sure it can be done, its more the actual gathering of the information from the PC's that im unsure how it works

Thanks

Answer : Application or script we can schedule to gather information from PC like OS version, Service Pack level etc etc

We here use Windows Powershell and Get-WMIObject.  With this we can get pretty much everything you need to know.  A few examples - in Powershell (downloaded at MS for free and runs/operates just like a dos window):

1. Gather Pretty much all system information (All)
gwmi win32_ComputerSystem -computer [COMPUTERNAMEORIPHERE]

2.  Gather pretty much all BIOS information
gwmi win32_bios -computer [COMPUTERNAMEORIPHERE]

There's a ton you can do, and if it helps, it may be worth looking into Microsoft's Scritpomatic, which can automate most of these.  With the aid of a VB Script against Active Directory, you can generate  a list of all the computer names into a CSV and have it read in by the powershell:



const FileName ="C:\InventoryScripts\domaincomputers.csv"
set cmd = createobject("ADODB.Command")
set cn = createobject("ADODB.Connection")
set rs = createobject("ADODB.Recordset")

cn.open "Provider=ADsDSOObject;"
cmd.activeconnection = cn

set objRoot = getobject("LDAP://RootDSE")

cmd.commandtext = "Context") & ">;(objectCategory=Computer);" & _
              "name,operatingsystem,operatingsystemservicepack, operatingsystemversion;subtree"
'**** Bypass 1000 record limitation ****
cmd.properties("page size")=1000

set rs = cmd.execute
set objFSO = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set objCSV = objFSO.createtextfile(FileName)

q = """"

while rs.eof <> true and rs.bof <> true
      objcsv.writeline(rs("name"))
      rs.movenext
wend

objCSV.Close
cn.close

wscript.echo "Finished"