Inventory Management
Inventory Management is the discovery and auditing of assets or configuration items used in the organization and making sure that they are in the configuration management database (or CMDB). After these configuration items are discovered and audited, Configuration Management maintains information about configuration items required to deliver an IT service, including their relationships.
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The Discovery Manager role has the required permissions and views to perform all the inventory auditing tasks. |
HEAT Discovery automatically detects network-attached devices such as servers, printers, and switches. After these devices have been discovered, they are audited; detailed information is collected on the hardware, operating system, application software, and data files or each discovered device. Client agents communicate with the server agent through an efficient and compressed protocol, with negligible impact on network performance.
Inventory Audit Features
Inventory auditing provides the following features:
- Asset tracking through the comprehensive auditing of networked computers, standalone computers, and servers, for hardware and software applications.
- Simple, flexible, rapid deployment across your network without disrupting users.
- Software usage. This can tell you whether to move an application from a computer on which it is installed but not used, to another computer (thereby saving the expense of a new license).
- History by re-auditing. Auditing can be carried out according to a schedule and on demand.
- Flexible reports and queries of audit information.
- Ability to display the audit information in a number of ways:
- Organizational unit to reflect your company structure
- Software product
- Operating system
- Device type