Inventory and SLM

This folder contains information, scripts, tricks, and other details on how to extend LANDesk inventory and Software License Monitoring, as well as make the process much easier.

Add Microsoft Product Keys to Inventory — by Denny Cannon — last modified 2006-05-08 22:40

Import Microsoft product keys using Produkey

Add Novell Login to your Custom Data — by jack — last modified 2007-11-05 09:45

Thanks to Peter Choi for this tip

Collect PST file information — by Denny Cannon — last modified 2006-07-18 22:07

How to find out how many PSTs your end users are storing and how much space they're taking.

Debug failing scan inserts — by sergio — last modified 2008-09-19 13:18

How to figure out why a scan isn't inserting

Delete Automatically Discovered Products — by dportillo — last modified 2007-11-14 17:09

How to clear the database and re-discover

Editing Lenovo BIOS asset tag — by Luiz Faro — last modified 2008-06-25 15:04

Several IT administrators want to have the PC asset tag in the BIOS. There is no easy way of inserting it, but here is a possible one. Works for Lenovo devices (tested on M55 and later).

Extending Inventory with Unmodeled Data (Free AD Groups) — by Denny Cannon — last modified 2008-03-25 09:47

Insert custom data into your inventory from the agent during scans

How did I get all these duplicates? — by jack — last modified 2009-05-22 08:40

How did I get all these duplicates?

How to get startup files on inventory — by Luiz Faro — last modified 2008-06-25 18:59

Sometimes you need your inventory to collect whatever is starting with Windows. How can you get it ?

Include Active Directory Groups — by markmcginn — last modified 2007-12-17 15:48

Pull Active Directory group information into LANDesk's inventory

Lenovo queries — by jack — last modified 2008-12-22 16:29

Corrected versions of the TVT hardware queries

ldms_client — by jack — last modified 2008-12-19 19:50

The all-singing, all-dancing, centrally configured inventory extension component.

ldms_csv2slm — by jack — last modified 2006-05-08 21:44

How to import licensing data the hard way

LogonHist — by Dave Zubrowski — last modified 2009-01-07 14:31

A Twist on LANDesk Primary Owner

Mode=All scanning for select machines — by jack — last modified 2007-11-05 09:46

How to run a mode=all scan on a single machine without changing the option globally

Quick and dirty - Machine SID into Inventory — by Jesse McCoppin — last modified 2008-03-03 08:29

Use Sysinternals' PSGETSID and a batch file to insert Machine SID into registry.

Registry Key Monitoring — by BCarpenter — last modified 2007-11-05 09:46

An automated way of using LANDesk to monitor registry keys and display them in a column set

Registry monitoring slide presentation — by BCarpenter — last modified 2007-11-05 09:47

Slide presentation on how to setup LANDesk to automatically retrieve registry keys in inventory

Reporting PC Adds, Removes and Address Changes in LANDesk — by BCarpenter — last modified 2007-11-05 09:48

How to build a rolodex of snapshots of the LANDesk query/report data that allows you to track changes in a multitude of PC/User attibutes such as Primary owner, Subnet Address, Added Machines to inventory and Machines Removed from inventory.

Strip older scans down — by jack — last modified 2006-05-10 14:24

John Elswick's ld_scan_parser.exe trims old/broken scans down to the minimum, safe information

Trigger Custom Data Form from Console — by ecoidan — last modified 2008-03-03 13:49

Use the Console Extender to trigger a custom data form for a particular machine

View the Power State of all your PCs with the Free Power State Notifier Lite — by MarXtar — last modified 2008-07-02 15:54

LANDesk free plug-in to give real-time view of the power state of all PCs in the organisation.

What to monitor in SLM — by jack — last modified 2007-11-05 09:51

Do you really need to know about every .exe?

Automatically Update Device Groups — by Corrie Arend — last modified 2010-01-15 13:33

The device groups that can be created in LANDesk can only be updated manually. This is a workaround to update those groups automatically using SQL.

Find Machines Not in a Static Group — by Denny Cannon — last modified 2010-02-24 13:20

How to find machines that are in all devices, but not in a static group. Leverages Corrie's "Automatically Update Device Groups" on this site, but is used to get machines that aren't able to be grouped together via a query grouped.