Using WMI for inventory of PC's and LCD's

Hello everyone!!!

I would like to get some ideas on collecting unique information from
all of the equiptment at my company for inventory. I know that WMI
would work well for getting the info for the PC's, but I thought it
would be really cool to also collect some sort of unique ID from the
monitors(LCD) and possibly the printers. Would a PnP id number work?
Would this change if I plugged in another of the same model of monitor?
If anyone knows anything on this or any software apps that can do
this, I would greatly appreciate your comments.

Thanks,
Brian

On 2 Jun 2005 19:31:04 -0700, wrote:

Hello everyone!!!

I would like to get some ideas on collecting unique information from
all of the equiptment at my company for inventory. I know that WMI
would work well for getting the info for the PC's, but I thought it
would be really cool to also collect some sort of unique ID from the
monitors(LCD) and possibly the printers. Would a PnP id number work?

It's an id of that make/model, but not "unique" per se, it
won't differentiate between two of the same part.


Would this change if I plugged in another of the same model of monitor?

no


If anyone knows anything on this or any software apps that can do
this, I would greatly appreciate your comments.


There is no software to do this, they don't report serial
numbers or anything like that- that is not what PNP is meant
to do, nor does.