On Monday 28 May 2012, Ravi Kumar wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <ashish...@lostca.se> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) writes: > > > On Sunday 27 May 2012, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > > >> Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) writes: > > >> > I need to pull out data from some Windows desktops to put into > > >> > an asset management system. I can install NSClient++ or > > >> > equivalent on the Windows machines -- NSClient++ preferred, > > >> > since then I can use the same for monitoring the boxes with > > >> > OpenNMS too. > > >> > > > >> > Is there some easy way to get NSClient++ to list installed > > >> > software packages and their versions over the network? If > > >> > not, is there some other tool that will allow that > > >> > information to be pulled out remotely? > > If you want to use Python on windows, it may be easy task. I used > Python, pyWin - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ and WMI > package for Python (http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html) , > and then I was able to get list of all software, shares etc in > current system. > Either you can develop on HTTP server to get list of software from > remote machine, or you can also connect to Remote Machines WMI using > PyWMI package and pyWin32.
Turns out there's a package meant specifically for this requirement: FusionInventory: http://fusioninventory.org/wordpress/ One of the things it pulls out is softwares and versions. Thanks for all the help. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
