I am an administrator of a company which has a LAN consists of about 60 workstations and several servers. Maintain and manage these computers is my daily work. Keep a detailed inventory is very necessary for me to keep the whole network running safely and steadily. Record these information by hand is unpractical, well then a powerful and helpful network inventory scanner is an ideal solution for me. But which one should I choose from a lot of similar network inventory scanners in the market. Here I introduce you a network inventory scanner which is designed by Magneto Software. I have used it for a long time and my work efficiency is great improved with it. If you have the same trouble as me? Why do not you give it a try and I can make sure that you will love it soon.

Global Network Inventory is a software and hardware inventory system that can be used as an audit scanner in an agent-free and zero deployment environments. It can audit remote workstations and network appliances, including network printers, hubs and other devices. The program requires only administrative access rights if used for on-demand auditing, and it can also be deployed as an agent to perform regular audits initiated through the domain login script. We can scan computers by IP range or domain or based on a host file and fully customize the items to be audited. The available auditing options include various system information groups, installed software, services, user lists, shares, startup programs and much more. Global Network Inventory can export the scan results to HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, or text formats, and also send reports via email. The key features of Global Network Inventory include: 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.

Global Network Inventory is a powerful and flexible software and hardware inventory system 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 can audit remote computers and even network appliances, including switches, network printers, document centers, etc.
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.

Global Network Inventory key features:
1. Scan computers by IP range, by domain, single computers, or computers, defined by the Global Network Inventory host file.
2. Reliable IP detection and identification of network appliances such as switches, network printers, document centers, and other devices.
3. Scan only items that you need by customizing scan elements.
4. View scan results, including historic results for all scans, individual machines, or selected number of addresses.
5. Fully customizable layouts and color schemes on all views and reports. Export data to HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, and text formats.
6. Customizable printing.
7. 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.
8. Reports can be saved on disk, sent via email, or both.
9. The program comes with dozens of customizable reports. New reports can be easily added through the user interface.
10. Audits can be performed by deploying a scan agent through the domain login script.
11. Licenses are network-based rather than user-based. In addition, extra licenses to cover additional addresses can be purchased at any time if required.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $250.00, you can free download and get a free trial.