Features
Easy to install, easy to use
For most environments all that is required is running the setup program and starting the scan. The user interface is integrated into the Microsoft Management Console and exposes the same look and feel as the management tools do which are pre-installed by Windows. It displays data sets with thousands of items with ease, featuring drag and drop and faster reaction on user input then any web application could ever do.
Linux and Mac OS X
rxInventory uses the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol to log into Linux and Apple Mac computers and retrieves a complete hardware and software inventory by using existing operating system commands. No or minimal configuration is required on the clients. The rxInventory scripting language provides the user with a way to issue his own commands over the SSH connection, parse the output, and add the results as user-defined properties to the database.
Powerful scripting language
Because it is impossible to know in advance what information a network administrator requires to complete her tasks, rxInventory features a Visual Basic like scripting language to do custom scans for registry values and files. Even arbitrary WMI and SNMP requests can be executed and integrated into the result sets as extra properties.
It's fast
Scans for multiple devices are running in parallel while taking advantage of modern multi-core CPUs. Scanning and inserting the results into the database are all taking place in different operating system threads. The number of parallel scans can be adjusted. Bandwidth usage of a single scan naturally adjusts to network conditions and does not clog up slow WLANs or dial-up lines.
Scales from small networks to installations with several ten thousand clients
A variety of mainstream SQL databases is supported by rxInventory. This way there is virtually no limit on the amount of data it can handle. It scales from the simple MS-JET engine (the same as Microsoft Access uses) to big SQL data centers. Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, MySQL, PostgreSQL are equally supported. Data can be migrated between these different kinds of databases anytime by using the rxInventory console.
It does not forget
rxInventory keeps record on all changes of hardware and software items. Even after years it is possible to find out what and when exactly a certain change happened and to check who was actually logged on then. (The last feature may be switched off, if applicable law does not permit to store user information.)
Open access to the asset data
rxInventory offers an powerful designer for custom queries. It allows for the most advanced analysis of nearly every aspect of the asset data. The result sets can be transferred to other applications by simply using cut & paste. (e.g. to Microsoft Excel). Advanced network administrators and software developers can additionally access live rxInventory data by selecting from ordinary SQL database views created from custom queries.
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