Features > Inventory methods
By remote, on-demand audit from your desktop, email, LAN/WAN/inter /intranet/ftp/http-s & removable media
Behind the success of iInventory lies the simple, elegant and powerful design of its detection technology.
- From your desktop you can use the iInventory console to automatically scan for and audit connected Windows PCs. No user intervention is needed or required
For computers not connected to your network utilize the iInventory agents which are easily configured with the iInventory console. There is no limit to the number of agents you can make. Your agents are then moved, emailed, posted or transferred as necessary to the required location to perform the auditing task.
Agents can be run on target computers in many ways. You may apply your own ideas but some commonly used methods are:
- Audit large numbers of networked computers quickly by placing one agent on a network server - and activate it with a simple command in the login script. Each computer runs the agent on login and the resulting audit data collection is centralized
- If you don't have network rights, bulk email users with a link to a single network-located agent - with a simple instruction to click the link. This activates the agent on the target
- Walk around audit. Place the agent on a zip disk, floppy disk, CD-RW or even the network. Visit each target and run the agent manually. This method is often used by third party auditors as it is also easy to collect administrative information or distribute asset stickers
- Email remote, standalone users with the actual agent - with instructions to run the agent and return the audit data files
The inventory agents produce small compressed audit data files for each target, typically less than 15k.
