Version 2024.1

Welcome to Network Inventory —an Alloy Navigator Express' module that detects, audits and continually tracks physical and virtual computers, servers, printers, switches, routers and other equipment on the network. Network Inventory allows you to take control over your network inventory with an array of audit methods and strategies.

About this Network Inventory Help

This Help System is designed to help you quickly find answers to your questions about Network Inventory's windows and functions.

There are two ways to access this Help system within Network Inventory's:

• Press the F1 key on the currently active screen to display the relevant topic (note that not all screens will have context-sensitive help).

  NOTE: Before pressing F1, you must click in one of the screen’s fields to display the topic for that actual screen.

• Select Help > Help Contents on the menu bar to browse the Help System to find the necessary information.

The Help System is organized in the following chapters:

• Introduction. The current chapter introduces the structure of Network Inventory and provides an overview of the user interface.

  • Copyrights

  • Components

  • Overview of Audit Methods

  • User Interface

• Common Functions. This chapter explains the standard operations with application objects. This section also describes various methods for customizing grids and the Network Inventory application.

  • Customizing toolbars, commands, and options

  • Configuring the Network Inventory application options

  • Customizing grids

  • Printing grids

• Configuring Audit Settings. This chapter guides you through the configuration tasks.

  • Audit Profiles

  • Audit Credentials

• Taking Inventory. This chapter provides a detailed description of available audit methods.

  • Getting Started

  • How to Audit Network Nodes

  • Working with Sites

  • Direct Network Scan

  • Google Directory Audit

  • Network Folder Audit

  • Remote Audit with E-mail Delivery

  • Remote Audit with FTP delivery

  • Portable Audit

• Analyzing Results. This chapter explains how to view and analyze the audit results.

  • Viewing Collected Inventory Data

  • Viewing Individual Audit Snapshots

  • Working with Collections

  • Viewing and Changing Network Node Properties

  • Viewing Change History

  • Selecting multiple records

  • Batch updating UDFs in multiple records

  • Deleting records

• Managing the Software Catalog. This chapter explains how to use the Software Catalog for configuring software products and software recognition rules.

  • Classification of software products

  • Creating software products

  • Modifying software products

  • Marking products as New or clearing the New flag

  • Viewing discovered installations

  • Merging software products

  • Exporting or importing software products

  • Deleting software products

  • Managing recognition rules

• Advanced Features. This chapter provides a description about advanced tools and options, explains the Inventory Analyzers of Network Inventory.

  • Comparing Audit Snapshots

  • Exporting Audit Snapshots

  • Integrations

  • Capturing Screenshots on Remote Computers

  • Associating Virtual Machines with Host Machines

  • Audit Snapshot Viewer

  • Windows Inventory Analyzer

  • Linux Inventory Analyzer

  • Mac Inventory Analyzer

• Wizards and Tools of Network Inventory. This chapter explains how to use the wizards and tools of Network Inventory.

  • User Tools

  • Administrator Tools

• Glossary. This chapter explains terms used throughout the document.

To find all product documentation including help, online guides, and release notes, use the Product Documentation drop-down menu in the upper panel or go to Alloy Software Product Documentation.