Here is yet another custom inventory tool that you can use to help create the necessary XML files needed to gather your critical data. Or just something for you to play around with and make yourself look busy, but to each his own. This works pretty well too, it has its own mini-web driver and is fairly self contained and gives you some good framework to build off of. Because who wants to go head long into building the house of custom inventory without building the foundation fist? :-/ BTW, this was "gleened" from MF '05, way back in tha day... here's a link to where it was mentioned: http://www.managefusion.com/... I grabbed a copy before leaving the con... that day the lab got 0p\^/|\|3d.