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2006-11-05 22:23:46 |
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We've got software to audit the PC's, but it does a poor job at saying "we've got X copies of software Y"..
I'm really after something that says "we've got X copies of software Y, which is on maintenance until D/D/D and covers previous versions A, B, C"! Currently we use excel lists and a homemade access database, but it's really not good enough anymore :(
Andrew
On 03/11/06, Sorin Srbu < sorin.srbu orgfarm.uu.se">sorin.srbuorgfarm.uu.se> wrote:
We use a managment of sorts. It's
Everest Corporate Edition, and audits hard - and software on all our computers
(servers and clients). From the data we get we produce a html-report. exporting
to SQL is supported but we don't use that. Yet.
It can't however tell if a particular
license is SA, volume or whatever, it only keeps ;track of what we have IRL.
For license-types and/or agreements we
depend on a thick binder with paper contracts etc. 
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Management?
Hi!
Do any of you guys use software to manage your licenses at
all? By manage I mean track what you've bought, what type it is (OEM, per user,
concurrent, etc), any maintenance agreements (SA et al).. There seems to be
billions of web pages out there saying "ooh yeah, software management is the
cornerstone of IT!" but grand total of about 2 programs which appear to do it!
Andrew
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2006-11-06 08:22:07 |
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| Ah, we had only the binder before my time at the dept.
After my arrival the computer-numbers exploded and licensing was starting
to get unmanagable. So we went audit-shopping and came up with
Everest.
However, Altiris and MS SMS are frequently mentioned
when it comes to auditing. Those however are on another
price-scale.
How big is your computerpark? If it's less than 100
machines I'd go for some kind home-brew half-automatic solution. ANything more
than that and I think your boss has to open his wallet for
you...
HTH.
We've got software to audit the PC's, but it does a poor job at
saying "we've got X copies of software Y"..
I'm really after something
that says "we've got X copies of software Y, which is on maintenance until D/D/D
and covers previous versions A, B, C"! Currently we use excel lists and a
homemade access database, but it's really not good enough anymore :(
Andrew
On 03/11/06, Sorin
Srbu <orgfarm.uu.se">sorin.srbuorgfarm.uu.se>
wrote:
We use a managment of sorts. It's Everest Corporate Edition, and
audits hard - and software on all our computers (servers and clients). From
the data we get we produce a html-report. exporting to SQL is supported but we
don't use that. Yet.
It can't however tell if a particular license is SA, volume or
whatever, it only keeps ;track of what we have IRL.
For license-types and/or agreements we depend on a thick binder
with paper contracts etc.
Hi!
Do any of you guys use software to manage your licenses
at all? By manage I mean track what you've bought, what type it is (OEM, per
user, concurrent, etc), any maintenance agreements (SA et al).. There seems to
be billions of web pages out there saying "ooh yeah, software management is
the cornerstone of IT!" but grand total of about 2 programs which appear to do
it!
Andrew
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