1. Open-AudIT
Open-AudIT provides a comprehensive view of what devices are on your network. Their configuration, running services, and just about any other information you can think of.
2. Net Tools
Net Tools is a comprehensive set of host monitoring, network scanning, security, administration tools and much more, all with a highly intuitive user interface. It’s an ideal tool for those who work in the network security, administration, training, internet forensics or law enforcement internet crimes fields. Net Tools is mainly written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6, Visual C++, Visual C# and Visual Studio .NET.
3. Spiceworks IT Desktop
Spiceworks has the everyday IT features you need.It takes less than 5 minutes to get up and running. No agents. No scripts. No manual. No hassles. Just download Spiceworks and go.
a. Inventory and report on your company’s hardware and software assets automatically.
b. Monitor and troubleshoot the hardware and software on your network.
c. Run an IT Help Desk for your company that’s easy to use.
4. WinAudit v2.24
PC Audit and Inventory Software
5. ManagePC is an open source .NET application for PC management in Windows environments. Using ManagePC you can inventory all aspects of PCs on your domain including:
Hardware, Services, Software, Hot-Fixes, Processes, Local Users and Groups.
Manage PC also lets you take control of PCs through familiar interfaces. Use remote desktop, VNC, reboot, start/stop services, uninstall software and more directly from the ManagePC interface.
6. OCS Inventory NG
Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation, the open source automated inventory and deployement system, is made for you.
7. zCI Computer Inventory System is an free and open source web-based computer inventory system. Simple but has many corporate-grade inventory capabilities. Its client-side program is able to collect inventory data (hardware and software information) automatically without any manual input. Its web-based server-side programs simplify inventory management and it is not only manage computer hardware and software.
8. Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external “plugins” which return status information to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current status information, historical logs, and reports can all be accessed via a web browser.
9. SYDI is a project aimed to help system administrators in getting started with their Network Documentation. It can document Windows Servers, MS SQL Servers, Exchange Organizations and Linux systems.
10. OCS Inventory NG
Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation is an application designed to help a network or system administrator keep track of the computers configuration and software that are installed on the network. Information about Hardware and Operating System are collected. OCS Inventory is also able to detect all active devices on your network, such as switch, router, network printer and unattended devices. For each one, it stores MAC and IP addresses and allows you to classify them. When running Administration console under Linux, if nmap and nmblookup are available, you will also be able to scan an IP or a sub network for detailled informations about uninventoried hosts. Last, but not least, OCS Inventory NG includes package deployment feature on client computers. From the central management server, you can upload packages (software setup, commands or only files to store on client computers) which will be downloaded through HTTP/HTTPS and launched by agent on client computer.
11. AD-COIT (Computer Object Inventory Tool) Connects to Active Directory and retrieves a list of computer objects, queries for FSMO roles, and then connects to computer objects and queries for inventory information, outputting results to .csv file.
12. Hyperic HQ is an IT-management framework that gives its users the ability to manage many different types of technologies (in Hyperic lingo, resources) from a single interface. With Hyperic HQ, you can:
Inventory the resources on your network
Monitor those resources
Alert on problems with those resources
Control those resources
13. GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration- Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers…). It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system with mail-notification and methods to (…)
14. Lansweeper
Free hardware inventory and software inventory for windows
Lansweeper is a completely free solution made by Geert Moernaut to make a complete software, hardware, spyware inventory of your windows network.Lansweeper does not need to install a client on your workstations, all scanning is done through the use of WMI, fileshares and remote registry access. This free software is used in many universities, schools and companies.
15. NetPoint
Is the free simplified yet powerful way to manage your network inventory assets. It was designed by system administrators to meet the unique needs of Windows enterprises, so you can take advantage of automated system discovery, agentless polling technology, and a web-enabled search right out of the box. With NetPoint you can track software and hardware that have been added or removed from your network. It’s agentless, which means it does not require special client software on remote systems. NetPoint tracks 20 different types of hardware and software. Tired of complicated network inventory systems that require training and days to setup? NetPoint can be installed in a matter of minutes. It consists of a windows service and web site. The windows service remotely polls systems for their inventory using native Windows technologies. The web site gives users the ability to browse and search hundreds of hardware and software details. Download NetPoint today and see why it’s the choice for over 2,042,594 systems worldwide.
16. DomainScan Light
DomainScan Light (and NetScanG) is freeware. The product can be used and distributed freely. DomainScan Light can monitor any WMI enabled computer that is a member of the same domain or workgroup as the host computer.
17. AdvancedRemoteInfo
Allows you to gather various information about a remote Windows PC on the network. It includes information about hardware, installed software, network configuration, shares and printers, users and much more. You can also interact with the remote machine and terminate processes, start/stop services, send messages and even uninstall software remotely. AdvancedRemoteInfo also offers screenshot capture of the remote desktop, remote shutdown and batch operations to process multiple machines. The information can be exported to Excel , delimited or HTML format. You need administrative privileges on the remote machine to make use of all features.
Requires Windows NT/2000/XP.
