TNI Techpaper

List of terms

TNI: stands for Total Network Inventory and is its name and trademark.

Admin unit (main unit): a GUI application used by the user. It is installed on a workstation or server and is used to gather inventory information, view it, and include it in reports.

Scanning: the process of collecting information about hardware and software from computers and other devices.

Storage: the application’s database containing inventory and configuration data.

Minimum system requirements for the admin unit

Object Parameters

CPU

1000 MHz

RAM

512 MB

Disk space

37 MB + 0.35 MB per stored asset snapshot

TCP ports

135, 445 and dynamic ports above 1024

Network

TCP/IP
OS

Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2

OS for the Multi-user version of TNI

Windows 8.1 or higher

PostgreSQL

14 or higher

Database mechanism

The TNI Storage is a repository that contains service data and device information. Depending on the storage type, this data can be stored in files or in an SQL database.

In file-based storage, each inventoried asset is represented by an INV file. When using an SQL database, device information is stored in the corresponding database.
Service data is stored separately from device data. This includes user information, login credentials for accessing devices, and other related information. All data is compressed and encrypted.

You can create several separate storages and switch between them at any time.

Asset-related data can be transferred to another storage by converting it to an INV file when using an SQL database, or by copying the files from a file-based storage and importing them into the new storage.

Additionally, you can quickly export all the collected information about any device in the storage to CSV or XML.

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