@Nadrek - using SQL is the normal way for most of us.

At some point, you are going to have too many servers to manage doing on a server by server basis.

Utilizing a script that reads your central inventory server or simply a text file, you can check over every database file on every server in your enterprise - no multiple deployments or huge server groups to manage in SSMS. (I run a whole battery of checks nightly on every server, as I find something else, i just add it to my monitoring scripts in one location, the next day I have new info)

To me, that is the benefit.