okie..May be I am not looking for exactly a network auditing tool. I am looking for a tool which could gather the information about computers hardware and softwares on the network. To be more precise, something like AIDA 32 or BeLARC Advisor, i.e. which could give me the ip address, dns information, processor information, memory information, cd rom specs, hard drive specs, network interface type etc. etc. In the software category, I might be requiring the exact version of operating system, what third party softwares are installed on the machine and stuff like this.
Though, if someone requires to monitor the Windows updates, do i need to mention Microsoft Baseline security analyser?
Besides, thanks for such prompt reply...