The core functionality for ENT Inventory is provided by Microforge.net Enterprise Server (ENT Server). Typically, you would install one ENT Server that multiple users could access using ENT NetCenter and ENT Report Forge.

You can access the ENT Inventory module on your ENT Server using ENT NetCenter, which allows you to audit machines, handle alerts and add/remove items from the inventory on your ENT Server.

ENT Inventory is tightly integrated with the other modules on your ENT Server, so you can create helpcalls and tasks that relate to the items in your ENT Iventory. And you can easily include inventory information in the reports that you design, or download and install one of the many inventory reports that are available, from our ever growing report library.

All communication between ENT NetCenter and and the ENT Inventory module on your ENT Server is performed using the ubiquitous HTTP protocol, so it is very easy to work with your ENT Inventory even if these are separated from your main network by a WAN or Internet connection where firewalls and routers may exist.

Traffic between ENT NetCenter and ENT Server is highly compressed and optimized, so it is entirely possible to have your ENT Server in the United States and technicians running ENT NetCenter in Europe and Asia. The information that ENT NetCenter sends to ENT Server when auditing a machine on the network, for example, is typically around 30 KB before compression (so around the size of a very small image on a web page).

ENT Net Center enables you to remotely collect information from any of Windows PCs on the networks you manage. Since this audit process is performed using WMI, which is built into the Windows operating system, you don't have to deploy any software or client agents on remote machines in order to be able to audit these.

Machines which are not connected to the network can be audited using EntAudit.exe, which audits machines and saves the results to an audit snapshot file, which can be emailed automatically or copied to a removable storage device and posted to your ENT Server at a later date from one of the machines on your network. Non windows based machines (such as printers and routers) can be manually entered into your ENT Inventory by technicians so that you can maintain all of the information, relating to the networks that you manage, in one powerful and easily accessible repository.