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Simple auditing software recommendations please? for compliance audits

We want some software that will scan our devices around 20 computers on a domain network.

And then to report to us basi information such as manufacturers - memory size - office software licenses installed - antivirus patches needed - windows version -etc ip address etc etc

I have taken a look at Lansweeper but it looks overly complicated

can you guys recommend some simple software so that we can at the click of a button get a report for all the above type of information?

please advise

thank you

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Joe Winograd

I use Belarc Advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/

It is free for personal use, but not for commercial use, so you would need their commercial products — BelManage for inventory and BelSecure for security vulnerabilities:

http://www.belarc.com/belmanage.html
http://www.belarc.com/belsecure.html

If you want to perform additional analysis of the BelManage data, they have an add-on Data Analytics Module:
http://www.belarc.com/data_analytics.html

As a disclaimer, I want to emphasize that I have no affiliation with this company and no financial interest in it whatsoever. I am simply a happy user of the free Belarc Advisor. I do not use their non-free, commercial products, but based on the quality of the Belarc Advisor, I wouldn't hesitate to try them if I had the need. I think they should be on your short list. Regards, Joe

btan

You can look out for Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP). It can gather inventory information from machines on any domain as long as the appropriate administrator credentials are provided to the MAP wizard. However, it does not provide the ability to inventory and report networking information such as persistent routes or network topology. You can catch some of the sample report in (zip) http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=152762

MAP can be used to inventory and assess the following operating system versions, regardless of whether they are 32-bit or 64-bit:
•Windows 10
•Windows 8.1
•Windows 8
•Windows 7
•Windows Vista*
•Windows XP*
•Windows Server 2012
•Windows Server 2008 R2
•Windows Server 2008
•Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
•Windows Hyper-V Server 2008
•Windows Server 2003 R2
•Windows Server 2003
•Windows 2000 Server
•Windows 2000 Professional
•Linux**
•HP-UX
•VMware ESXi
•VMware ESX
•VMware Server v2

FAQ - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/ff807352.aspx

Another is from ManageEngine which is not bad too though it is not free
https://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/asset-inventory-management.html