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The System Administrator Appreciation Day 2015 may be over, but we’re not yet done with surprises: meet your new assistant! Softinventive Lab is happy to announce Total Software Deployment, a perfect deployment tool for your entire network. We already had a software inventory management tool. Today, we complement that tool with another one – to help you deploy software to remote computers.

Total Software Deployment

Why We Made Total Software Deployment

Why yet another remote deployment tool? Aren’t Microsoft guys good enough building the MSI deployment tool for Windows? We love Microsoft Windows, especially the latest Windows 10, but its remote deployment …

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As you know, the development of Total Network Monitor was suspended back in 2010. Over the years, the software has received a lot of positive feedback from you, but it still contained some known bugs that kept reminding of themselves.

We hope you enjoy this news, because we’ve found time to breathe new life into the project.

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Just look at this changelog, which is far from being exhaustive:

  • BIG FEATUREAll program elements have been updated and modified: engine, UI, documentation.
  • NewHTTP sensor: UTF-8 support added for page content check.
  • NewHTTP sensor: Pages availability check via HTTPS.

Greetings!

Long time no see! From the side it might even seem that we lounged for the past 4 months. But of course not, in fact, everything was much more interesting. We paid a huge amount of time to optimize and improve the stability of Total Network Inventory. During these 4 months, we have released seven builds, and as you may have noticed, the latest version is already 3.1.6.

Let’s see what changes we’ve made during this time:

  • NewChange log: ability to choose the history depth and select specific objects for log building (major speed-up).
  • NewSoftware

Hello! Another interesting update has been released:

  • BIG FEATUREFull SNMP scan with possibility to load vendor MIB files.
  • NewList of all USB devices that have ever been connected to Windows computers.
  • NewInventory number and serial number in brief printable report for General information.
  • ImprovedESXi and FreeBSD agents updated.
  • FixedMS Office 2013 product keys detection (KMS and Click-to-Run).

Full SNMP scan

Previously Total Network Inventory was able to collect only a small subset of information from devices with SNMP support. Now it’s in the past. Full SNMP scan will provide you with all available information. Moreover, …

And here is the update we promised:

  • NewTelnet protocol support (scanning of network devices running BusyBox via Telnet).
  • NewDetection of virtual machines running under KVM.
  • NewNew currencies in the currency list.
  • NewMS SQL Server 2014 detection support and 64-bit versions designation.
  • NewNew fields for MS Windows and MS Office: product name, description, and license status.
  • ImprovedComputers with multiple network interfaces are distinguished more correctly (to avoid duplication).
  • ImprovedAll instant search fields support search by phrase (space-separated words are searched in any order and on any positions).
  • ImprovedGUI improvements in the “Edit –

Greetings! Today we roll out another significant update:

  • NewVMware ESXi 5 and ESX/ESXi 4 scan support (via SSH).
  • NewDetection of VMware virtual machines on Windows.
  • NewNew types of physical devices (specific and generic hypervisors) and virtual machines.
  • NewNo tags filter in Software accounting.
  • ImprovedVisually redesigned user interface.
  • ImprovedUpdated low-level hardware scan driver.
  • ImprovedNew default settings for low-level hardware scan, for both maximum safety and accuracy of collected information.

ESX/ESXi support

We were getting this question a lot, so we implemented the feature: meet the support for scanning of VMware ESX 4 and ESXi …