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How LOGINventory works

LOGINventory5 - The way it works

Installed at a central location in the network LOGINventory makes an agentless data collection of all networked Windows computers and of all other IP-capable devices. Even SNMP-capable components are scanned to retrieve their device information. Among these are print servers, hubs, routers, switches, Linux and Mac computers.

LOGINventory can be centrally installed on a PC or a server. Integrated in the LOGINventory Management Console (LMC) it offers a convenient user interface as you know it from Web-browser navigation. LOGINventory can only be installed on Windows NT, XP, Vista, 200x, 7. An installation or program execution of software agents on the client computers is not necessary.

LOGINventory's IP scanner, the program module LOGINquiry, lets you perform up to 150 parallel ad-hoc queries per minute. By configuring the IP range it is possible to also make an inventory of the IT assets from multiple sites of a company network. Data from Windows Home Editions like Windows 98 can only be collected via logon script (see also the FAQ article Prerequisites for Scanning).

A script enables you to manipulate data or read values from the registry and WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). This way the scan process can be extended almost at will.

LOGINventory writes all scan-results as an encrypted .li5 file - one for each device - into a a user-definable directory. Even if the inventory phase is done by using USB sticks or logon-scripts the resulting .li5 files have to be placed into this directory at the end.

The program module LOGINsert compares the .li5 files with the existing LOGINventory database information, updates all changed information and deletes the .li5 files afterwards. Via the Options of LOGINsert you can choose to either delete or move the .li5 files in the "Done" subdirectory (Option: Keep done files).

This way it is even possible to install LOGINventory at various sites, insert the collected data locally into the data base and additionally copy or move the data to a central LOGINventory instance for further processing.

The LOGINventory Management Console component or our Webinterface lets you flexibly analyze the data. All reports can be printed or saved for any further use.

All scan and insert operations can be custom configured and automatized via the Windows Task Planner.

Analyses

The data analysis comprises the following pre-defined inventory nodes:

  • Assets: All computers (with CPU, hard drive and partitions) from which data could be accurately gathered. Double-clicking a PC unveils all of its details AND all other devices (IP capable hosts) that were detected in the network, however not identified as computers.
  • Domains: List of network domains
  • Faulty: contains all assets that were inaccurately (faultily) scanned. These assets do not consume a license (as opposed to LOGINventory 4)
  • Hardware: a list of all hardware used in your Windows network and the number of installations.
  • Software Packages: a list of all used software packages and the number of installations.
  • License Management: functionality to comprehensively manage the software package installations on the networked machines
  • Users: display of sub nodes with identified user account. This gives an overview of who is using which machines.
  • Analyses: hierarchically organized analyses pass on their filter conditions to sub nodes. Any Analyse Nodes can be assigned to users or user groups as their root node and may be displayed as default node types like Software, Assets, or User Node for all queries. In this way and based on the user’s needs, it is possible to get filtered and customized views on the LOGINventory database by completely masking, for example, the upper tree with its unfiltered, predefined views. There is no limit in creating user defined queries for custom Analyses.
  • Recycle Bin: all deleted and discarded assets can be moved into the LOGINventory Recycle Bin. As opposed to v4 these assets do not consume a license. Please do not mix it up with the Windows recycle bin.