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Steel Inventory
Steel Inventory

Steel Inventory is a network inventory auditing program, that allows you to keep track of software and hardware changes across your network. After an initial scan, you can generate a snapshot that in ...

Average of 3 user ratings: 4
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  • Sep 17, 2008
  • For version:
  • 1.2

quote  Has flaws  quote

  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 3

Well, I dealt with hang ups more than getting to use it and had some issues with discovery. The preset subnets option wasn't working particularly well either. When specified using the preset, seems when I get the freezes more often. I did manage to detect my own pc finally and view software and hardware but nothing fancy. I think it needs some work and has potential.

user Review by: gimpguy (370)
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  • Mar 26, 2007
  • For version:
  • 1.2

quote  Auditing networked computers made easy  quote

  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

I've used this program for over a year now and it makes easy work of creating and monitoring the software and hardware on all PCs connected to our network. One great feature is the ability to take a snapshot of one or more PCs and then later simply view any changes that have occurred since the snapshot. The monitoring of licenses is also made simpler; after the first audit, enter your license limits for each software item and from then on the status of each is easily seen. I highly recommend it for anyone with the otherwise daunting task of monitoring any changes on their network of software or hardware. Best of all, it's freeware!

user Review by: RobCinOz
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  • Jun 29, 2005
  • For version:
  • 1.0

quote  Very useful, but not for win 98  quote

  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

As expected, this software is only for NT family (NT, 2000, XP, etc). It will not run under Win 98 as it displays error "ActiveX/Cannot create object". Maybe it needs WMI/WindowsScript 5.6 installed? On the NT platform it runs excellent!

user Review by: AnonymMan (28)
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