Your boss calls you and says, "Accounting needs a hardware inventory report by the end of the week. Oh, and don't even think about spending money on an inventory software package." What started out as a pleasant day has taken a turn for the worse.
You can manually inventory every computer in your company, you can quit your job, you can claim that the task can't be done—or you can use a two-pronged scripting solution that collects hardware inventory and generates a Microsoft Excel report in record time. This solution—which requires only Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Windows Script Host (WSH) 5.6, and Excel 2000 or later—can gather extensive inventory data from Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 4—SP4—or later), Windows Me, and Windows 98 systems.
Preparing for the Inventory
The hardware inventory solution consists of two scripts. The first script, HrdWrInv.vbs, is an inventory agent that collects hardware information from each computer on the network. The second script, BuildReport.vbs, is a report agent that creates an Excel workbook containing hardware inventory data from all the computers on which HrdWrInv.vbs ran successfully. You can download both scripts from http://www.winscriptingsolutions.com, InstantDoc ID 39111. . . .
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