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Les Mackenzie:
A general question to anyone that can help.  I need a way to monitor the usage of 50+ laptops over the internet including all software/hardware located on said laptops.  I have looked over several asset tracking systems online and none of them will accomplish this without using a TSR that can be disabled at the users whim.

Is there some way I can script it so that when the users log into our secured members area that I can inventory their laptops.  I know cPanel has a feature that reads the browser and OS version but I want something a little more in depth.

Is it possible to do this feat of magic?

Tony Reid:
Just out of interest - why would you want to do this?

Also, you have other things to think about, like invasion of privacy.

Les Mackenzie:
These are company owned laptops that need only have company owned and administered software on the desktop.  Their really isn't a privacy issue for our sales rep's since we own the hardware and they sign agreements to allow "on-the-spot" audits of hardware/software.  This is a way to monitor our hardware and do dynamic audits in a helpdesk situation.

There are win32 apps that will accomplish this but I want to go the open source route.

chris:
There is no easy way of obtaining this data...

It could probably be done if you install a special ActiveX-Control on their machine or if you could run a PHP script on *their* machine (you need access to the local file-system and to the registry to build some kind of simple monitoring-system... but keep in mind that php-scripts that run on the client-machine could be modified quite easily)

Les Mackenzie:
yep, that's what I thought.  I was going to create a batch file that would search the reg. for the needed information and then send it via email to me (the administrator).  Don't have a lot of experience with ActiveX so maybe it's time to learn :)

Thanks.

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