Network Inventory Advisor: All in one network management utility
Posted by piyush. Filed in Software
In a big organisation featuring various nodes in a network, it is seriously very tedious task for administrator to keep track of all its member`s computer resources. Thankfully, there are utilities like Network Inventory Advisor, which does the inspection of all the software and hardware resources of every single computer in a network.

Network Inventory Advisor Front screen
After performing a thorough scan of the network, it finally gives a detailed network inventory report. One of the best part of this agent free utility is that it helps reducing the IT costs. Moreover, its scanning is compatible to the computers having Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating system. However for linux powered nodes, SNMP agent is required

Hardware Description
With Network inventory advisor, you will gain help in following four fields:
1) Software Inventory
As the name signifies, it deals with the software resources of the network. With this, you can know the softwares installed on all the nodes in the network. In addition, you can know about security applications, software versions and licences installed. Finally, you can view the complete software inventory report.
2)Hardware Inventory
Hardware Inventory helps you know about hardware resources and lets you prevent hardware losses.It can help you to know which computer is running low on hard disk space and lets you know about various peripherals attached to a node. Apart from this, it performs a general scan of all hardware resources like CPU, memory, audio-video and peripherals and give a detailed summary regarding it.
3)Network Inventory
It automatically analyzes all inward relevant data and gives an alert on crucial changes that needs an attention. It also allows you to add custom service tags, inventory numbers, costs, locations and much more.
4)Network Reports
One of the powerful feature of Network Inventory Advisor is that it can build great detailed reports. Initially you just need to switch to reports tab in the software and click on the type of report that you want to have a look at- detailed or tabular. Thereafter, you can even export the report to other platforms like SQL etc and get it printed as well. Network Inventory software also comes with the option of scheduling network scans and receive its updates in your mails as well. Hence, it can be regarded as an all in one network management software.
Download 15 days trial version
You can also buy the software and its pricing will depend on the number of nodes for which you are buying. You can view all the details related to pricing by clicking here.
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