The inventory of hard and software data is the precondition for an efficient and long term administration of IT systems. An automated inventory is the only way to be always on an up to date level because IT systems change constantly during their lifecycle. Hardware components may be added or removed, software installed or uninstalled. In growing IT networks it takes a high input of manpower and time to inventory this manually. With the DeskCenter Management Suite, you can reduce both the needs of time and manpower to inventory your entire network. Therefore, costs are reduced, redundant data avoided and the working quality increased.
Changes in the IT are not always wanted; components may be taken away unauthorized or software installed unapproved. With the DeskCenter Management Suite such events become transparent because the administrator gets extensional information about system changes.
The DeskCenter Management Suite gathers more than 3500 different hard and software data of a computer system. There are different inventory methods, which are described in the following table. For assets (for example Linux systems, printers, switches, storages etc.), the DeskCenter Management Suite offers flexible methods of inventory over SNMP.
Using these different methods of inventory, all requirements of intern processes, working orders and infrastructure are assured in a flexible way.
The DeskCenter Management Suite works with individual time schedules. Different intervals for computer groups or single computers can be defined. These can consider restrictions on weekdays and time periods for inventory. Functions to start a system over wake-on-lan and to shut it down after successful inventory are also included.
