Help! Serial Number of PCs on network

[rocknrollstar]

Hi, I have to do a VERY quick inventory of the pcs/laptops at our school. With over 100 serial numbers to get, is there any piece of software that will tell me these quickly?

 

We have a windows 2000 server, with XP clients. Mix of laptops and desktops.

 

Many thanks!

[AJT1]

Spiceworks does this methinks

[eddyc]

It sure does, providing all machines are on, just download spice works and do a network scan.

[penfold]

Yup, Spiceworks can do a lot of that. But dont forget those non networked laptops (or those in the cupboard)

[rocknrollstar]

Thanks all, you've saved my bacon

[sparkeh]

Though be aware that not all manufacturers put the serial number in BIOS and may find it returns 'Serial Number'

 

Discovered a while ago that NEC dont do this (at a completely NEC site) so had to walk around anyway and enter them manually

Edited March 24, 2010 by sparkeh

[Cools]

same here had evesham PCs, now i have HP and all's good.

[Geoff]

Just add it to your checklist of things to look for when evaluating your potential new PCs.

[pete]

If you're running WSUS, it also pulls it in via the bios (look at machine details)

[Scruff]

Fog's hardware inventory task will also do this if you happen to use it as your imaging solution.

 

If not, i agree with the spiceworks option

[FN-GM]

This will do the job - http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/32287-inventory-your-network.html

[TechSupp]

User a very similar version of that scripts hereand it worked just fine, edited it to give me a more basic PC spec list though.

[rocknrollstar]

Fog's hardware inventory task will also do this if you happen to use it as your imaging solution.

 

If not, i agree with the spiceworks option

 

Thanks- I do use FOG for imaging, but it didn't have all the details for all the pcs unfortunately. Perhaps I didn't do a full inventory when adding the machines to the FOG server.

[keogk]

OpenAudit will also provide that info to you as well as a bunch of other info. You can push the audit out from a GPO as well. I use it as well as spiceworks

 

Open-AudIT

 

Open-AudIT • View forum - Open-AudIT

[Domino]

I found spiceworks far too unwieldy and slow.

 

Lansweeper is much more lightweight, extensible and provides far more information

[Trapper]

Does Spiceworks do this is you have non-OEM custom machines?

[Gatt]

We use OCS Inventory to great effect....

[tolstoshev]

Does Spiceworks do this is you have non-OEM custom machines?

 

Yes Spiceworks will scan anything - see this help article if it has trouble scanning anything:

Resolving Unknown Devices & Scan Errors - Spiceworks Community

 

I'm the Community Manager at Spiceworks, and you can get help with any issues you are having in our support forum

[Scruff]

Thanks- I do use FOG for imaging, but it didn't have all the details for all the pcs unfortunately. Perhaps I didn't do a full inventory when adding the machines to the FOG server.

 

No need! There's an advanced task to do this, if you have the FOG client installed it will reboot the machines and do an inventory. Just got the task management and select it.

[JemmySmith]

Hi!

Network Inventory Advisor can do this job for you. (clearapps.com). It can automatically inventory any nubmer of computes rather fast. After network scanning you'll get detailed report which can be printed. I use it at my company.

Also I used Hardware Inspector some months ago. Not bad, but it does only hardware audit.

[Elison]

I guess I have mentioned 10-Strike Network Inventory Explorer program. It is installed on administrators PC only and does all your job automatically: scans your network, finds PCs and provides all the information about software that is installed, and hardware which is the most important thing