Global Network Inventory is a useful , powerful and flexible software and hardware inventory system utility that can be used as an audit scanner in an agent-free and zero deployment environments.

If used as an audit scanner, it only requires full administrator rights to the remote computers you wish to scan. Global Network Inventory has the ability to audit remote computers and even network appliances, including hubs, network printers, document centers.
Global Network Inventory agent can also be deployed to perform regular audits initiated through the domain login script when your users log on the network.

In this scenario, Global Network Inventory agent is exported to a shared network directory, and audit results are collected in audit repository directory as snap files and later merged into the main database.

Here are some key features of "Global Network Inventory":

· Scan computers by IP range, by domain, single computers, or computers, defined by the Global Network Inventory host file.
· Reliable IP detection and identification of network appliances such as switches, network printers, document centers, and other devices.
· Scan only items that you need by customizing scan elements.
· View scan results, including historic results for all scans, individual machines, or selected number of addresses.
· Fully customizable layouts and color schemes on all views and reports. Export data to HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, and text formats.
· Customizable printing.
· Schedule inventory scans to run at specified time, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annually. Ability to generate reports on schedule after every scan, daily, weekly, or monthly.
· Reports can be saved on disk, sent via email, or both.
· The program comes with dozens of customizable reports. New reports can be easily added through the user interface.
· Audits can be performed by deploying a scan agent through the domain login script.
· Licenses are network-based rather than user-based. In addition, extra licenses to cover additional addresses can be purchased at any time if required.


Requirements:

· Scanner Machine
· CPU: Pentium or AMD processor (400 MHz or faster)
· RAM: 256 MB
· Hard Disk: 10 MB of free hard disk space for the installation. The actual size of the database depends on the number of computers in your inventory as well as audit history level.
· Global Network Inventory can run on Windows 98 and Windows ME, however, scanning capabilities will be limited.
· Additional requirements: Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Jet Engine 4.0


Limitations:

· 30 days free trial
· 20 licensed adresses
· Nag Screen