willay
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suck my balls.
I need to look into implementing a asset register, got mah barcode stickers and tingz just wondering what everyone else is doing to record it, fancy web app? spreadsheet? notepad covered in coffee? talk to meh.
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Tom G
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Spreadsheet would work fine i would of thought?
Nice and simpless, Although I would want something that when scanned popped back as PC1 etc.
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willay
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what you on about?
Yeah spreadsheet is #1 on my list but if there is ssomething sexier out there I want to know now 
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Dom
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I've briefly seen solutions from Redbeam and Scout in action and they appear to work reasonably well; costly though.
My limited interaction was mainly with someones self-rolled out application (VB6 based) that use an Access database  Worked well as a basic inventory setup though and included the ability to generate/print barcodes to a label printer; but this was 7/8 years ago.
Saying that though, it wouldn't be too hard to knock up a web based app though especially if the scanner presents itself as a keyboard (serial device would be a bit tricky though).
[Edited on 04-09-2012 by Dom]
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willay
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sooo still leaning onto a spreadsheet, at least I know I should have the data in some sort of format which could be exported to a webapp/gayshit in the future :/
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Bart
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Use a spreadsheet, but good luck.
Its such a ball ache!
Even when your finished, by the time your done, employees have already swapped hardware and its out of date.
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VrsTurbo
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Open Audit. Free and Open Source can be done via login scripts or Nmap. Works on Windows and Linux great bit of kit for free
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VrsTurbo
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Or spice works but thats very bloaty
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willay
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got spiceworks already but its a fucking cunt, i fucking hate it.
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Ian
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Any reason not to use a spreadsheet? Do you have any relational-type structures? Any relationships you need to map like locations etc.?
Probably can do using Autofilter anyway. I wouldn't over complicated it if you can avoid it.
DB would be nice if you want to track components inside the machines etc. but it does make a lot more difficult to see what is going on unless you bodge a load of queries in there.
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Toby
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used a psreadsheet for last one i did
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Daniel_Corsa
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Use a spreadsheet at work. Simple and effective.
Asset number, make, model, serial, supplier, purchase date, cost, etc.
Done.
April '06' Corsasport Feature Car  | Aug '08' Total Vauxhall Feature Car | Spring '09' Fast Car Feature Car
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Gaz
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Spreadsheet is best.
If you log on to a domain in work then you could write a batch script for peoples profiles to auto- update a log file for you so you don't need to have any manual labour activity's.
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VrsTurbo
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Look at open audit. Its great and the DB Structure is quite easy to make your own PHP page for it
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willay
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FYI I'm probably going to be recording:
Workstations
Servers
Printers
Monitors
IP Phones
Switches
Access Points
Routers
Maaaaaybeee barcode scanners....
And thats about it IMO IIRC TBH
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Russ
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we track ours via a system that logs location, service history, Pat testing, previous locations, date of purchase etc etc
no idea what it's called though 
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pow
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Got a BEAUTIFUL Access DB that I use for this.
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willay
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I'd rather eat my own shit then use a access db for this
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VrsTurbo
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Open Audit will even scan computers to see what printers are attached to it 
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willay
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See I'm looking at openaudit now but I'm unsure if I really need all that functionaility, it says it will report on a whole host of shit I dont need at the moment.
I believe the requirement we need at the moment is just putting an asset sticker on the device and recording it in some sort of spreadsheet/db.
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
I'd rather eat my own shit then use a access db for this
Why dat?
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