Alloy Discovery Free Edition8.0.0.1

Alloy Discovery is a resourceful software utility that facilitates powerful tools for evaluating Windows, Linux and MAC OS machines by resorting to several audit strategies. It sports advanced features which mainly cater to experienced PC users.

Lengthy installation and professional UI

Setting up Alloy Discovery may take a while due to the fact that it's a large package. The tool adopts a professional-looking window that comprises a few panels for exploring audit and computer groups, as well as for examining information in detail.

Set up the network discovery configuration

A quick wizard at startup can be used to tinker with the initial configuration for network discovery. Therefore, users can look into a Windows domain or within a specific IP range, as well as apply the current logged user or administrator credentials.Based on the selected parameters, Alloy Discovery is capable of creating groups and descriptions. It offers to audit the identified machines right afterward, showing details on the total, started, completed and failed tasks, along with a list of computers, statuses, start and total times.

View and examine machine information

Once the scan job is done, Alloy Discovery shows a list with identified machines together with their name, model, CPU, CPU speed, memory, hard disk capacity, operating system, and IP address in the computer list.Other details are gathered for installed software and devices, shared folders, printers, and event logs. What's more, users can look up files through a search function, and investigate file statistics. Information can be exported to file for further analysis.

Other tools

Alloy Discovery also lets users audit their own computer by name or IP address, modify audit configuration details and the default credentials, create a portable package for pen drives, as well as to load audit files from media devices. These are just part of the functions provided by this app.

Evaluation and conclusion

No error dialogs were shown in our testing, and the program did not hang or crash. It has a good response time to commands and takes reasonable time to finish a scan job. Thanks to its comprehensive set of options and customization preferences, Alloy Discovery should meet the requirements of all users looking to audit network machines.