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Posted on 1/10/17 at 8:46 am
Posted by TigerRob20
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2008
3732 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 8:46 am
I am looking for a program that can pull asset or inventory data on all devices in a home or business. This would include not only the usual assets, such as servers, workstations, routers, switches, mobile devices, etc, but also IOT devices, such as hubs, light bulbs, thermostats, cameras, smoke detectors, etc.

I wasn't sure if Spiceworks or Solarwinds could do this or not. Any suggestions?

TIA
This post was edited on 1/10/17 at 8:46 am
Posted by LSU316
Rice and Easy Baby!!!
Member since Nov 2007
29311 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 8:49 am to
Have you looked at Kaseya?

I'm not sure what their coverage on the IoT side is but on the normal IT assets they are top notch.
Posted by TigerRob20
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2008
3732 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 8:56 am to
quote:

I'm not sure what their coverage on the IoT side is but on the normal IT assets they are top notch.


That's kind of what I am wondering. I've heard good things (and bad) about all of these asset management programs (used to be in audit, so looked through reports from each). I was just wondering if anyone had experience with pulling asset data on IOT devices.

Posted by WavinWilly
Wavin Away in Sharlo
Member since Oct 2010
8783 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 10:26 am to
Haven't ever even thought about that, and I hope dearly that neither internal nor external audit gets this bright idea.

Posted by philabuck
NE Ohio
Member since Sep 2008
10380 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 11:43 am to
phpIPAM may fit your needs. It's free.
Posted by Tigeralum2008
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Member since Apr 2012
17144 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 4:29 pm to
We use Spiceworks in the office and I can confirm it will track servers/networking equip/printers

It's reporting agent is quite good and can even tell you the toner levels on your printers in one clean dashboard.

As far a IoT assets, you can add them in the inventory and potentially ping them but obviously can't do much else.

You could also use The Dude to ping IoT assets and be alerted when they go down.
This post was edited on 1/10/17 at 4:31 pm
Posted by TigerRob20
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2008
3732 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 4:36 pm to
Thanks for the suggestions, keep them coming if anyone has any ideas.

quote:

Haven't ever even thought about that, and I hope dearly that neither internal nor external audit gets this bright idea.


Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George
Member since Aug 2004
78016 posts
Posted on 1/10/17 at 5:49 pm to
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We use Spiceworks in the office


I hate Spiceworks and can't wait to get off that damn thing.
Posted by BabySam
FL
Member since Oct 2010
1505 posts
Posted on 1/11/17 at 7:51 am to
I demo'd Manage Engine's service desk plus last year and it was our primary candidate to replace spiceworks. It has varying levels and is ITIL based, so you can step up the basic service desk to include asset management. Now, idk if they sell asset mgmt by itself. But guess it depends if you would be interested in moving other service apps to them. They have option for on-prem or web-hosted.
Posted by Tigeralum2008
Yankees Fan
Member since Apr 2012
17144 posts
Posted on 1/11/17 at 8:02 am to
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I hate Spiceworks and can't wait to get off that damn thing.


It's one of the best free apps I have ever used.

What causes you to hate it?
Posted by Vlad
North AL
Member since May 2012
2605 posts
Posted on 1/11/17 at 9:40 am to
We use SolarWinds, its pricey but its doing a much better job for us than SpiceWorks did.
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