Today we’ve released version 3.9 of Network Inventory Advisor. This release addresses a number of issues which have come up since the previous update, including the problem with correct detection of antiviruses and firewalls in Windows 7 and Vista.

Thanks go to many users who requested features and reported issues during the last couple of months… years. To that end we proudly announce that Network Inventory Advisor 3.9 now supports native scanning of Linux. Here’s how a Linux node’s report will look like:

Network Inventory Advisor - report on a Linux node (click for full size)

2 pre-requisites here: first of all, your Linux installations should be accessible via SSH (open-ssh server is highly recommended for this, it’s available by default in most Linux distributions, but might not be activated), and secondly, you still have to use your admin login. So enabling custom login for Linux nodes (either individually or for the whole group) might be a good idea.

Another feature we got a lot of requests for was software changes tracking. We’ve also included it in version 3.9. Actually we added 4 new reports on your network software. Here they are:

#1 - Software changes report: find out which software was removed or installed lately.

Network Inventory Advisor - Software changes report (click for full size)

#2 - Installed software report: see what’s installed on your nodes with all the software details.

Network Inventory Advisor - Installed software report (click for full size)

#3 - Software presence report: get a convenient overview of the nodes where certain applications are installed, or missing.

Network Inventory Advisor - Software presence report (click for full size)

#4 - Software versions report: a kind of tabular report, where software titles are columns, and computers are rows.

Network Inventory Advisor - Software versions report (click for full size)

All 4 new reports are now accessible in the Reports tab:

New reports on software

Node’s summary will now report total amount of RAM as a separate parameter. This fixes several issues with correct reporting of RAM for some virtual machines:

New line with total memory info

Here are a few of the improvements over the 3.8 version:

• INTRODUCED: new alert on software change
• INTRODUCED: data on antiviruses in tabular reports
• INTRODUCED: SSH connection timeout for better scanning of Macs and Linux nodes
• ENHANCED: status detection of Windows Defender
• ENHANCED: enumerated data in tabular reports is now split by semicolon when being exported into XML
• ENHANCED: visual enhancements of the Reports History
• ENHANCED: several minor improvements in GUI (Windows 2000)
• ENHANCED: sender can be specified for emails by the scheduler

For the full list of fixes and improvements, please, see this post on our forum.

If you are upgrading from version 3.8, it will be an absolutely smooth standard upgrade, just download and install. If your are upgrading from any earlier (prior to version 3.8) release, you will need to request an updated license code if you are a registered user.

Once again, you can get the latest version of Network Inventory Advisor from the download page.

Questions? We are always near to help.