cisco network inventory

If you’re not into scripts, Microsoft offers other tools that can help you gather all sorts of cisco network inventory information. For example, the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (available by keyword search at www.microsoft.com/downloads) lets you identify essential security information about each one of the computers in your network. This information lets you know which OS version runs on a computer. Another tool, the Office Update Inventory Tool, is also available to let you identify which Office components are installed on any computer in your network.

While the latter only reports on Office (2000 or later), Microsoft offers another free tool, the Software Inventory Analyzer, that covers all Microsoft products on any computer in your network. This tool was produced to help in its anti-piracy drive. For information about all the software products on a PC, you can use the Microsoft Application Compatibility Analyzer. While designed to report on application compatibility for the purpose of operating system upgrades, it still generates a report on the software and applications found on each computer in your network and sorts it by computer, department or application.