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For Immediate Release
Contact: Jim Harris, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
World's First Network Auditor Extends Support for Macs
Inventory audit products abound for the Windows platform and of these, iInventory v5 is perhaps the most widely licensed. However, the Mac community has a limited choice of fast full-detail audit tools.
iInventory has not only redressed this imbalance, but has added more Mac features to its newly released iInventory v6, now out on field beta test. New Mac agents combined with homogenized reports across Macs, Windows and Linux computers provide an encompassing and welcome solution.
If you want to test the v6 beta please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for details and download information.
v6 already includes existing Mac OS 8/9 and OS X agents with improved handling of extended characters which were introduced with v5.5.3. In the next 1-2 months v6 will extend Mac support to include:
Collection of font information
OSX stealth audit ability
Detection of Mac computer name
Version 6 will also introduce support for the Microsoft SQL Server database, as an alternative to Access.
Product overview:
Easily Maintain an Inventory of Your Hardware and Software
iInventory is a powerful application that makes it easy to maintain an accurate hardware inventory and to monitor software license compliance on all of your Windows, Macintosh and Linux PCs. Whether you need to analyze your hardware and software prior to the installation of a new operating system, provide system data to your IT help desk, or report asset information to your management team, iInventory can analyze every computer in your company and provide critical data to your management team.
After installing iInventory on a single Windows PC you create small, portable inventory agents that you can run on every computer throughout the enterprise via email, LAN, WAN, login script, Internet, intranet, or floppy disk. No software installation is required on the target computers, which can be anywhere in the world. The inventory data is imported from each machine, and stored in an industry-standard Microsoft Access or SQL Server database. You can then use iInventory's comprehensive reports, or the powerful Access or SQL Server query and reporting functions.
In addition to collecting user-defined information such as department name, location, and sticker ID, iInventory collects bios data, CPU information, physical and logical drive data, device driver descriptions, Windows environment variables, IO Port data, IP and IPX information, NetBIOS and NT Services data, Network, NIC and operating system information, and even user logins. Macintosh and Linux inventories contain similar information.
The program also inventories all required files types, to detect software and unapproved files such as music (.MP3) and movies (.AVI). A substantial dictionary of 117,000+ entries is used to help identify software, and is constantly updated by iInventory staff.
iInventory audits a typical Windows workstation in about 15 seconds. Since the program works in the background and does not interfere with users' work, inventorying a large network can be accomplished with a minimum of disruption. Stealth auditing is possible if you wish users to be unaware of an audit. With its low cost, easy learning curve, and non-intrusive design, iInventory lets you manage all of your enterprise's PCs, Macs and Linux computers. You can evaluate the speed and efficiency of iInventory on your Windows PC online, for free, from the company's web site at www.iinventory.com.
iInventory audits Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP, Macintosh OS8.1+, OS9 and OSX, SuSe, Mandrake and RedHat Linux. Pricing for iInventory begins at $18.20(US) per seat for an 11 seat license reducing to $2.07(US) per seat - and even less for an unlimited enterprise license. One-time audit licenses are also available. In addition to taking the online audit, you can download a free 10-node evaluation version of iInventory.
For more information, visit http://www.iinventory.com or send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the US, contact iInventory Ltd, 575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10022. Phone: toll free 1-866 482 8348. Fax: (212) 214 0317. Outside the US, contact company headquarters at iInventory Ltd, 23 Hinton Road, Bournemouth BH1 2EF, UK. Phone: +44 870 607 0073. Fax: +44 870 607 0074.
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About iInventory
Since 1990, iInventory has kept pace with changing IT technology to provide fast, accurate network asset tracking for millions of computers.
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