Hi Bill,

#1. We will definitely check it with the Essentials, and post a more accurate instruction on tuning it here. Meanwhile, based on our experience with F-Secure firewall, which happened to be too greedy for open ports once, the following ports need to be open at the scanned PC for correct scanning by Network Inventory Advisor:

tcp 22 in
udp 137 in
tcp 139 in
udp 138 in
tcp 135 in
tcp 1051 in

#2. Detecting Windows Firewall and Essentials is one of those smaller issues we are currently working on. We'll post an update here once we are ready to present anything.

Thanks

A small update: can you send us your [information] folder (it's a subfolder in your installation directory of Network Inventory Advisor) to confirm that Essentials software is not detected? It was brought to my attention that it actually is in our database of antiviruses and antispyware, but not firewall. Thanks

Jeff,

Sorry, I am mistaken. The AV and firewall software is recognized but the Summary screen was throwing up an alert that no firewall is installed. Which makes sense since I disabled it to allow NIA access to the machine. However, it is catalogued under the Software tab. Just had to dig to think on it for a second.

The port changes worked nicely.

Thanks for the help.

You are welcome. Thanks for letting us know it's all fine now.