[dba-Tech] Re: [AccessD] System Settings Etc

...hhhmmm ...sounds too much like me :)

...aida will definitely feed an Access mdb and you can run it as a service
so no user intervention scheduling is easy ...and there's no reason why the
Access mdb can't in-turn, either e you the file or ftp to your site on a
regular schedule.

...note that while I've done each of the pieces separately I've not married
them and Aida myself ...but it seems like such a good idea that I think I'll
add it to my "to do" list :)

William Hindman
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have
 the courage to do what we know is morally right." --Ronald Reagan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erwin Craps - IT Helps" <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Re: [AccessD] System Settings Etc


>
> The thing is I'm having big plans for next year.
> I wanna spend some time in writing a tool to perform a better job and to
> bind my customers to me.
>
> As you know or may not kown, I'm mainly specialized in IT services
> (network management, tailor made apps (access), security) day-by-day IT
> stuff for SME's up to 50 users.
> Well thats mainly between 0 and 25 users. Mainly in companies where no
> IT staff is present or just a guy take does it half-time.
>
> I deliberate want a small quantity of clients to provide deep services.
> I prefer 100 faithfull clients than 500 more-or-less clients.
>
> So I believe I can improves the updatime of ther computerparc by dooing
> more pre-active jobs instead of post-active.
> I want to have a database at my premisses of all computers, servers,
> printers etc of al my customers. Every problem is logged in my database
> linked with the appropriate device.
> This database can be consulted by me and the customer over the internet.
> Problems can be reported this way to. A mini KB is present to solved
> re-occuring issues and specifi stuff for a customer.
>
> This way I have more arguments if they need to move over to a new OS,
> computer printer etc. Further more I do no business in supplies. I Loose
> some money on that. So If a user could login, he can click on his own
> printer and order directly some supplies for it.
> My supplier (Techdata) has an XML system which I can use to check stock
> and order directly and let it deliver directly at the customer site
> (without any intervention of my side).
>
> To commercialy startup this application, I need to do a large scale deep
> inveterisation of all equipment (software) at all client premisses. I
> have remote access to all of them.
> So if I could automise the inventarisation from here saying that the
> client  only needs to login once to start on every computer I can pick
> up those files to start my database.
> If this can be automised (scheduled every two weeks or so), I would spot
> when users installed forbiddden software, etc.
> I would have an exact idea of how many licenses of office are running
> and urge my client to buy adequate licenses.
> Or if a user changes his hardware (theft).
> Etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
>
> So the inventorisation of a pc should be automatic and without the user
> can disable or ignore it.
>
> Thats why...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:39 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Re: [AccessD] System Settings Etc
>
> Hi Erwin
>
> > I just installed aida, looks very good.
>
> > I wonder if you could tell me if this can be put into a server logon
> > script that would inventorise the networked pc's each x weeks (or
> > whatever) to put it's file somewhere on the server of my client, so I
> > could collect it on a regulary base (with FTP or so) and keep a
> > general database over here of all my clients networks?
>
> No, but why not put the result into a database file? I just wonder how
> to do it though; if I create an mdb with A2000, and the test button from
> AIDA reports OK it should deliver a report in that file. But after a
> while it times out with an error that the database report could not be
> created. So what to do?
>
> /gustav
>
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