Finding AutoCAD Installations on a network

Hi,

I've been tasked with auditing my companies license situation with regards to Autodesk products. We have a great number of seats running various versions of AutoCAD and other related products. So I thought the best way to find out whats installed is by running a script on the network to find specific files relating to these products:
Mechanical Desktop R4.0
Mechanical Desktop R4.0 (with Power Pack)
Mechanical Desktop R5.0
AutoCAD R14
AutoCAD 2000
AutoCAD 2002
AutoCAD 2004
Autodesk View R1.2
AutoCAD Mechanical 2000 (with Power Pack)

Would anyone be able to provide me with a list of the executable names that these programs use? Or perhaps an alternative way to search and distinguish between them?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Check out the CAD Manager's Extension that Tracy mentioned in his message to
you in the other newsgroup. It does just what you're looking for.

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to Autodesk products. We have a great number of seats running various
versions of AutoCAD and other related products. So I thought the best way to
find out whats installed is by running a script on the network to find
specific files relating to these products:

that these programs use? Or perhaps an alternative way to search and
distinguish between them?

 

The CAD Manager extension is not 100% reliable since it can only query what it can access at the time you run the search operation. Laptops are the most commonly missed items. A better solution is using a logon script or something like Microsoft SMS to collect the information based on next availability. You may not need that much effort if you have a small network or only have desktops and they're always powered on and accessible across the LAN/WAN.

 

If you don't have something like SMS, UniCenter, Tivoli or Remedy to collect inventory data, and you're interested in using a login script to gather inventory, let me know. I do all the Kix and Vbscript login script development at my company and have script code that may help.