Steel Inventory is a network inventory auditing program, that allows you to keep track of program and hardware changes across your network. After an initial scan, you can generate a snapshot that includes the current hardware and program information, and allows you to detect changes that were made later by comparing the snapshot with a current scan. In case of changes, the machines are marked, and the changed items can be viewed. The software is useful to detect newly added or removed software, as well as hardware devices that have been removed or added. In addition, you can also use the software for license tracking and be alerted if program licenses have been exceeded by to many installations. Other features include automatic refresh and reports. Steel Inventory does not require any program installation on the remote machines (admin and remote access privileges are required though).

How simple can Network Inventory Monitoring can get Steel Inventory 2.0 strives to be the simplest form of systems inventory control than all the other programs designed to do the same work.
The software has been designed keeping in mind the exact requirement of system managers. Steel Inventory helps you keep a good control over the IT assets you maintain. All the required features in the simplest form is our goal. Steel Inventory lets you take a snapshot of the original configuration and informs you when there is a change in the configuration either in Hardware or Software.
Steel Inventory helps you in :
* Finding the hardware configuration for all the machines in the network
* Search for specific information about any host in a single click.
* Detailed hardware reports consising of Processor, Memory, Hard drives, Network details and many more
* Helps you keep a tight control of the configrations on Hardware and Software
* Automatic audits at specific intervals with auto mailing features to keep the administrators informed about the configuration changes.
* Visible alerts when changes are detected in the recent audits compared to the original snapshot configurations.
* Helps you keep a good track of program installations and license usage.
* Simple backend, Simple report generation, Light weight software !

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $13.00, you can free download and get a free trial.