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Hi all,

I would like to take an ip address and get a listing of softwares installed on that machine(ip address). Then I would like to do that for list of ip addresses. Could some one recommend me some tools for doing some thing like this?

Thank you very much in advance..

Back Orifice?

PowerShell, if they are Windows machines.

PowerShell has a way, but to simply say "use powershell" is only 1/10th of an answer.  After a quick Google search I found this VBScript that generates a .MDB file of the results and it lets you poll specific PCs or all PCs

http://www.scriptinganswers.com/vault/Computer%20Management/computer_inventory.vbs.zip

I think I have the info on what you are looking for. I've used this software on local systems and it works quite well.

It's called AIDA32 - freeware.

Here is a brief historic explanation of what it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA32

Here's the link:
http://www.sofotex.com/AIDA32-download_L9326.html

Wow, thanks for the .VBS example, I had no idea it was so capable.

You can run it under:

wscript //d //x <scriptname>

to get a single-stepping debugger view of the process.

Our login script calls Aida32 with an appropriate report template.  I have written a bit of VB to parse the XML files generated and dump the information we're interested in into a SQL Server database.  I've then put a few search routines and reports into a web system that our IT Support team uses.

They find it helpful; I find it helpful (for, among other things, finding out who's being naughty with installing games on works laptops...)