School Asset Management

[tobiasclarity]

Hi All,

 

We are looking for suggestions as to a good School Asset Management system everyone uses/recommends, this will be for all our IT equipment. Currently we are using School Asset Manager but finding it is not meeting our requirements or had any new features in some time now.

 

Cheers for any feedback

[eddyc]

We use ITDB a free open source database that we've stuck on a unix box. We then use selecta mark tags to asset tag everything.

 

Had demos of schools asset manager several times. Think it's expensive for what it is (particularly in this current financial climate).

[Davit2005]

At the last college I worked at they used the online system Parago. Academy Asset Manager - Management Software - Parago

 

Not sure on cost but had nice features and GUI.

[tobiasclarity]

We have been looking at Parago, seems to be good. We also looked at Snipe IT, would be equally great to hear from anyone that is using this also. Cheers!

[lmrogers]

I have just installed and set up Snipe IT, it looks really good once you have set it up. You can generate asset labels for all your devices as well which is handy. I think it just needs a bit of tweaking and working to get it working the way you want though. Other than that I would really recommend it, especially as its free.

[Jaan]

I have just installed and set up Snipe IT, it looks really good once you have set it up. You can generate asset labels for all your devices as well which is handy. I think it just needs a bit of tweaking and working to get it working the way you want though. Other than that I would really recommend it, especially as its free.

 

Have you been able to reconfigure this so it fits in more with a schools IT asset needs?

 

Would you be able to share a screenshot if you have please? I've had a look at the online demo but still unsure if it can be adapted to better fit our requirements.

 

Struggling to get it working on Ubuntu, but happy to go hosted if it's suitable.

[lmrogers]

I have managed to configure it for use in our environment. There wasn't too many changes that were needed. It was mainly just a case of adding the AD link so pull through users so that you can assign assets to them. I think I read that in one of the coming updates that you will be able to assign assets to locations/rooms as well. I've attached a couple of images so you can get a rough idea of how it would look

 

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[lmrogers]

I have managed to configure it for use in our environment. There wasn't too many changes that were needed. It was mainly just a case of adding the AD link so pull through users so that you can assign assets to them. I think I read that in one of the coming updates that you will be able to assign assets to locations/rooms as well. I've attached a couple of images so you can get a rough idea of how it would look