Good cheap inventory programming not requiring additional stuff?

Hello,

Many many years ago I used intel landesk manager to do a quick inventory.
It didn't require any additional protocols enabled and the product was
pretty cheap. I'm looking for a cheap way of inventorying equipment type
and software for a small group - say 350 people. I don't need to push any
new software or updates or anything fancy - just a cheap inventory program
that works well.

Thanks

Any recommendations?

Hy

Have a look at http://www.loginter.net/en/loginventory.php

You can either scan all your Windows-Hosts and inventory them via WMI or run
a small executable at every login which reports the inventory to the server.
It has a very easy-to-use interface and you can create user-defined reports.
And in my opinion it's very cheap for it's functionality (300Windows + 300
Devices 2100$)

If that is still too much for your budget have a look at:
http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/ I tried it couple of months ago, but
i missed a couple of features.

Hope that helped you a bit.
-Hans