Yet as more and more workstations and servers are added to the network, obtaining and managing data becomes increasingly difficult. WinReporter® facilitates network management by retrieving all indispensable data linked to the functioning of the Windows NT/2000 network (LAN and WAN) and maintains retrieved information in an ODBC type central database.

More, WinReporter® offers a set of 31 predefined reports that will help network administrators in their audit and monitoring tasks: hardware upgrades, software updates and licensing, security checks, ...

Features

General features

- Selection of the computers to scan with the network browser, manually, or according to IP ranges
- Ability to scan trusted domains, non-trusted domains and workgroups
- Ability to use snapshots in order to follow the evolution of the network
- Use of a multithreading technology in order to scan a network at high speed
- No agent deployment required
- Ability to schedule scans
- Supported databases: MS Access, SQL server and Oracle

Scanned information
 
  Hardware
CPU, memory, memory in use, BIOS, video adapters, network adapters (TCP/IP configuration), partitions, physical disks, printers, memory modules, manufacturer model & serial, devices, ...

  Windows
OS version & SP, Internet Explorer version & SP, hotfixes, services, SAM/AD (users and groups), shares, shares permissions, swap files, Microsoft DNS servers, IIS servers active services, Active Directory domain controller roles, ...

  Software
Installed applications, files information, files version, files permissions, ...

  Event Logs
Accesses to files, logon/logoff activity, printing activities, service errors, computers starts and shutdowns, ...
 

Predefined reports

  Hardware
- General configuration: select computers according to frequency, processor idle time (%), memory size, memory in use, total disk size and free disk space
- Memory upgrade: displays how much the RAM size can be upgraded on your computers according to the maximum modules size allowed and the number of free slots.
- Disk space analysis: select partitions of your network according to their size or free size (in GB or in %). Physical disks can even be displayed.
- Disk space evolution: follow the evolution of the free space in the time
- Memory space evolution: follow the used memory evolution in time (over several snapshots)
- CPU time evolution: follow the processor time evolution (over several snapshots)
- Video configuration: select computers according to video memory, colour depth, horizontal resolution or refresh frequency.
- Devices: find and list devices available in the device manager from all your Windows computers (for example, you can list all modems installed on your network)
- Printers: list printers according to share status (Yes/No), plugged (Yes/No), colour, double-sided, port, model, paper size, etc.

Software
- Install statistics: count the number or copies installed on your network for each software
- Products location: locate computers on which a specified software is installed
- Newly installed products: find recently installed applications (between two snapshots)
- Software analysis policy: find computers that don’t match your software policy according to a list of approved/unapproved/required products

Windows
- Service Packs and Hotfixes: displays OS version, Service Pack number, Internet Explorer version and Service Pack number, and if a specified hotfix is installed or not.
- Users in groups: displays members of a group, of a union of 2 groups, and other combinations
- Services analysis: display computers that don’t match your services policy according to a list of approved/unapproved/required/need to run services
- Local accounts analysis: same report as previous but for local accounts
- Local administrators: same report as previous but for local administrators
- Shares analysis: same report as previous but for shares
- Shares permissions: displays NTFS permissions for all your shared folders

Event log
- Generic event report: list events according to standard event fields (like in the Event Viewer)
- Files Access Report: list accesses to files according to the object access audit
- Logon/Logoff Activity: list logon/logoff according to the logon/logoff audit
- Printing Report: displays the printed documents history and edits statistics (daily and per user) according to the spooler audit
- Process tracking: displays all process starts (time, user, file …) according to the process tracking audit
- Service errors: displays services errors notified by the service control manager: unexpected stops, service did not respond, etc.
- Computers starts & shutdowns: displays all computer starts, shutdowns and crashes according their to the event log.

General
- Added/Removed computers: added and removed computers between two snapshots
- Computer changes: find computers on which settings have changed between two snapshots (for example find all computers whose RAM size has been upgraded)
- Generic query: select records from a WinReporter table according to a simple criterion over one field
- Global report: displays complete information about all your computers, users and groups of your Windows NT/2000 network.

Supported platforms

For the computer running WinReporter:
Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003
Service Pack 6 and Internet Explorer 5 or more for Windows NT 4.0
128 Mb RAM
100 Mb free disk space

For computers being scanned:
Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003
Windows 95, 98, Me with Microsoft Remote Administration and Registry Service installed.