Quick and Easy Network Inventory

This is a network inventory software that provides you with information

regarding various hardware and software resources of all the nodes running on

your network. For doing so, it doesn't require any client to be installed on

the nodes. Instead it uses WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) to collect

all the information. It can automatically scan for all the Windows based nodes

available on your network. 

Once a node is detected, you can get information about all the processes

running on the system, details of all the software installed, all hardware

related information such as BIOS settings, processors, CD-ROM and hard disk

details. It also lets you create reports of all system processes, which can be

exported to HTML, XML, MS-Excel or RTF formats.

Step 1 (Running NAT): Using Network Asset Tracker is easy. The first

thing you need to do is to scan for the nodes on your network. But before doing

so make sure you have domain administrator rights and DCOM RPC service enabled.

For this click on the Computer tab on the menu bar and click on Find Computers,

if you want the software to detect nodes automatically.

Else, if you want to discover computers in a particular IP range, click on

'Find computers by IP range.' Once the nodes have been discovered they will

be displayed on the left side in the main window of the software. Now to get

information, right click on the node and click on Get/Update Info. Or if you

want information from all the nodes then click on All Get/Update Info.

Use NAT to export all inventory data to MS SQL database

Once the software has acquired all the information, click on 'System tab'

on the right to view all system related information. Similarly click on the

Software tab to view information about all the software installed on the node.

Click on Processes tab to view the processes running when the scan was performed

by the software.

Step 2 (Exporting Inventory Reports): To export all data acquired from

the nodes to MS SQL, click on File and then on Export all data to MS SQL. In the

window that pops up, provide the required details such as the name of the

database sever with authentication and the name of the database with table names

for each field. Then, click on Ok.

It provides hardware, software and running process information