http://www.open-audit.org/

or

http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/
plus
http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en

come to mind right away.

Also, WinAudit - http://www.pxserver.com/WinAudit.htm - which we use,
but which I plan on replacing with one of the above, because it's
pretty primitive.

Kurt

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:57, Angus Scott-Fleming <angu...@geoapps.com> wrote:
> I am looking to replace the free Spiceworks network monitoring and auditing
> system at one of my client sites since it doesn't have any way to list all the
> EXEs on a given computer, just those which have gone through the formal 
> Windows
> Installer.  Now that there are PortableApps versions of many Internet-facing
> apps, and since "user"-level users can "install" Google Chrome under MyDocs
> without writing to the HKLM\Software area of the registry that the Installer
> uses, I *_have_* to be able to inventory this stuff.  Also, the client has 
> some
> in-house software that doesn't use Windows Installer, and we need to inventory
> all the EXEs, including date-time stamp, file-size, and (preferably) a hash
> like MD5 or SHAx since the date-time stamp of an EXE isn't maintained when 
> it's
> downloaded from an FTP site using IE or Firefox (which is how they often 
> update
> their own in-house software).
>
> The BSA has a page listing "free" software audit tools:
>
>    Business Software Alliance - Free Software Audit Tools
>    http://preview.tinyurl.com/a8b2an
>    
> http://www.bsa.org/country/Tools%20and%20Resources/Free%20Software%20Audit%20Tools.aspx
>
> but I think most of the links lead to eval copies of non-free auditware like
> Novell ZenWorks, although at least one is free (but it doesn't provide what I
> want):
>
>  NetPoint: Network Inventory Made Simple
>    "NetPoint Express can be used free of charge on networks of all sizes."
>  http://www.neutex.net/Download.aspx?ProductGuid=6c6ad8cb-bdf6-41c6-9bc2-
> 0d3f36da044b http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybs8g93
>
> Has anyone ever seen or used something like this?  I found the non-freeware 
> E-Z
> Audit http://www.ezaudit.net/default.htm which says it can list all EXEs in a
> "Full Audit" but I didn't see any mention of calculating a hash on the EXEs.
>
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