10-Strike Network Inventory ExplorerComments on:

By: totimato

totimato — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:05:12 +0000

This is usefull to me, thank you!

8 out od 10

By: KM

KM — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:08:43 +0000

I am a home network user. This program was of interest to me because I am lazy and I liked the idea of having an inventory without doing much work. Well actually, there is a little work required but not too much. The inventory is more thorough than I can imagine using. The reports can be printed out and kept for insurance (that’s my motive, anyway).

When I was doing a survey of my wireless network with this program I found that one of my friendly neighbors had hacked my weak security and was stealing bandwidth. However, after the scan I lost my own connection to the gateway and spent awhile restoring it.

The price of the product seems to me to be too much for small users. A lite, or home networks, version might be a good additional market.

I am pleased overall and give my thumb up.

By: raylu

raylu — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:03:14 +0000

I found it was far more tempermental with WMI than Total Network Inventory v1.5.38.1 was, and without a separate application that would reside on the remote systems as Total Network Inventory v1.5.38.1 has, I would find it hard to recommend this application for anyone, free or otherwise due to the sheer complexity of setting it up to work right with WMI (And the fact that I didn’t get it working either following their steps.)

Having an application that resides on the remote systems is better…how?

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:10:02 +0000

Good for businesses, pretty useless otherwise :(

How about a flash maker GAOTD?

By: Sidney

Sidney — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:20:04 +0000

We just had one of these network inventory programs a week or two back. Thanks but no thanks.

By: Jack Pinoski

Jack Pinoski — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:10:18 +0000

I think he is saying that most home users dont actually have huge networks of computers to “inventory” so the software is targeting a small group of people…but thanks anyways GAOTD!

By: Alba

Alba — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:21:10 +0000

just saw comment 23. Does that mean we can install on Windows home and use for a LAN? Thanks

By: Alba

Alba — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:19:02 +0000

Do not have WMI. So yeah.. thanks anyway. Good idea for a program.

By: Robert McMains

Robert McMains — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:07:40 +0000

#17, I can point out at least a half-dozen that do just because the computers came with it. Just because *I* stopped at win2k is more because I don’t buy preinstalled (or preassembled) systems- at least I didn’t use to.

#24, who uses domains as a regular thing on a home network? Ok, maybe there’s a reason, but I’ll let you lay it out for me.

Anyway, 10-strike is a strike-out on network inventory. For any non-commercial use I can think of. I *might* give the agent a try, but for now NEI fails with a memory exception, so I’ll probably just nuke it.

I’m with the other guy, but I give it only one point.

By: pc rose

pc rose — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:54:46 +0000

#7, #10, #17. Commercial use means using it to fix someone else’s system and getting paid for it. Using it on one’s own system, stand alone or networked, is private use, not commercial use.