Stop walking from desk to desk to find out what is installed
Keeping track of what hardware and software sits on every PC in your network is slow if you do it by visiting machines one at a time. NEWT Professional Network Inventory from Komodo Laboratories collects that information from a central console, so you never have to visit a remote machine.
Quick facts
- Platform: Windows
- Vendor: Komodo Laboratories LLC
- Output: CSV, HTML, text files or a relational MS Access database
Key features
See every PC's hardware details in one spreadsheet-like view
NEWT shows the data it gathers in an easy-to-read, spreadsheet-like view. Hardware details include CPU type, speed and cores, CPU temperature, serial number, asset tag, video adapter, audio card and memory slot information.
Check drive health and monitor details without touching the machine
For hard drives it reports size, type (such as IDE or SATA), serial number, SMART health status, manufacturer, power-on hours and power cycles. It also reports monitor serial number, size and type, plus logical and network drives and network shares.
Audit installed software and Windows product keys
You get installed applications with publisher, version, product keys and install path. It also covers Windows product keys, hot fixes, Windows services, startup programs, fonts, environment variables and virus definitions.
Export to an Access database and run your own queries
You can export everything to a fully relational MS Access database and build detailed queries. CSV, HTML and text exports are also available.
Who it's for
It suits IT administrators who need an asset list of the Windows computers on their network. It also suits anyone who has to prepare hardware and software audit reports.
Pros and cons
- Pro: Collects a very wide range of hardware and software details from remote machines.
- Pro: Exports to Access for custom queries, plus CSV, HTML and text.
- Con: Windows-only.
- Con: Reporting through Access means some Access knowledge helps when you build queries.
FAQs
Do I need to visit each computer?
No. NEWT gathers the information without you visiting a remote machine.
Can I query the data?
Yes. Export to a relational MS Access database and write your own queries.
Which export formats are available?
CSV, HTML, text files and MS Access.