different methods to scan your entire network for all available machines and domains and can retrieve detailed information on each machine for both hardware and software components. Machines that have been scanned and cataloged can be marked for Auto-Update and new machines on the network can be detected automatically. The scan results can be exported to several formats, including Excel, Access, Html,Pdf, Jpg and others. Additional features include the option to create custom scan criteria, scanning for password protected screensaver and auto-logon usage, scanning for certain file extensions, registry values and much more. EMCO Network Inventory fully supports remote auditing, but also includes a NT/Win9x logon script stub to audit machines, if that method is preferred.

The program has three methods to scan your whole network for all available machines and domains.

With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can:
Install the software on your local machine or to a shared location from where you want it to run, and start it scanning your LAN to get detailed software and hardware Inventory information.

• Enumerate LAN, to scan your network for all available machines and domains into the machine tree.
• Enumerate LAN via IP-Range, to scan you network from a range of IP addresses.
• Enumerate LAN via Domain Name, to scan a specific domain for all available machines that belongs to that domain.
• Received detailed information from each machine, both hardware and software.
• Perform license tracking with reporting feature.
• Schedule Autofetch new machines on the LAN at selected intervals.
• Schedule Autoupdate for new information from machines at selected intervals.
• Export scanned data to several formats; including Excel, Access, Pdf, and others
• Report scanned data and export the report to several formats.
• Use Custom Scan Criteria process to create your own search query for; files / registry and service existence.
• Scan your networking machines for password protected screen savers and auto logon activity.
• Scan your networking machines for any files or file extensions.
• Scan your networking machines for any registry values.
• Filter any scanned information from the "Filter on sub tables" data grid, before you export the data.
• Use the Nt/Win9x logon script stub to audit machines from logon scripts, or use audit remote (Native) under administrator privileges for NT, W2K, XP machines.

How does Network Inventory 3.0 scan for Installed Applications on remote computers?
The program scans the remote registry where 98% of programs are registered, this is the same place that Control Panel Add/Remove Programs is reading from. This is the most secure and best way to get a result. Many other programs are scanning the computers on a file level and need to scan through the whole hard disk before getting the results of installed applications. This method takes too long time and loads the computer for the user while Network Inventory 3.0 scans the registry with a load that the user is unaware of and with a great speed.