Keeping track of computers.

I'm trying to come up with an idea to keep track of computers for a business. I was thinking of just having a text document on the C: drive that lists the Serial number, computer name, and location. Then use a Java program to query by computer name all of this information. Right now, where I work, we just use an excel spreadsheet to track them (about 300+). I'm just wondering what others have done in this situation? I'm not looking for code, just ideas, so I can build it.

Ok, here is what I have so far.
We tend to move computers around quite a bit. Either one fails and we replace it with another, or new ones are bought to replace the old ones. My idea, is to have a little program that I put on the computer (admin desktop) which we can open and update information (which is stored in a text documet on the C: drive). Information would be computer name, location, serial number, monitor serial number, ram, hd space, and the date it was last updated. This way, when we do move a computer, we can run this program and update the location, or if we add ram update that. I've already got this part built.
The other program, that the admins will have, will be able to take a list of active computer names and grab that file from each of them. It will get all the information about each computer. I should be able to make it so I can find all computers in a certain room, or find all that have less then a specified amount of RAM or HD size, etc.
Of course, a drawback will be if a computer is off when the list is updated. Another possible drawback (versus a database) would be network usage, having to query each computer one at a time.
This isn't something that I NEED to do, it is just something that I WANT to do. More or less Java practice. Like most of the stuff I make to use at work, it may never leave my home computer.
The database would be a lot better, it would certainly alleviate having to use the text documents. But where I work, getting access to some kind of an SQL server is a nightmare. I'm in the Military, and for us to use a server, we would have to purchase our own, and that isn't happening anytime soon. At the very least, If I wanted to use a database, I could setup a computer in the office and dedicate it for the database. Not ideal in any way!

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