Alternatives to Spiceworks for hardware & software auditing

[A Former User]

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

As do most. Manage Engine does as well.

Though I have seen the worst from Zerto, never heard of them til a few weeks ago. but I have sworn them off now due to their horrible marketing. (about a call and an email from a different sales person almost everyday 2 weeks straight.)

[IRJ]

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

[thanksajdotcom]

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Then you are the VERY rare exception. I used to get emails daily.

[IRJ]

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Then you are the VERY rare exception. I used to get emails daily.

Are the tools you are using free?

[thanksajdotcom]

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Then you are the VERY rare exception. I used to get emails daily.

Are the tools you are using free?

Yeah, I wasn't using the paid at the time.

[Carnival Boy]

Does anyone here use their own scripts rather than 3rd party tools?

[A Former User]

@Carnival-Boy I dobut it. for the desktops side of things it's fairly easy to script with pstools or WMI to get the data and put in a text file. But the organization of it is the hard part.

Honestly I think a excel spreadsheet can be more accurate than spiceworks inventory anymore with the newer versions.

[scottalanmiller]

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Then you are the VERY rare exception. I used to get emails daily.

Are the tools you are using free?

Yeah, I wasn't using the paid at the time.

That's what does it. They don't spam customers.

[IRJ]

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Then you are the VERY rare exception. I used to get emails daily.

Are the tools you are using free?

Yeah, I wasn't using the paid at the time.

Ok. I used paid versions so that explains the lack of spamming

[scottalanmiller]

@Carnival-Boy said:

Does anyone here use their own scripts rather than 3rd party tools?

No but seriously considering that.

[Rob Dunn]

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Probably because you already drank the Kool-Aid. It's the *potential *customers they want.

[Rob Dunn]

@Rob-Dunn
For a poor-man's inventory, you can use Open-Audit, it's all web and script based. It's not been updated in years, but it might do what you want.

AND it has a Linux package (and appliance download!)

[IRJ]

@Rob-Dunn said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Probably because you already drank the Kool-Aid. It's the *potential *customers they want.

Yeah, I mentioned it was because i was using the paid version in the next post