Numara FootPrints Inventory Manager

If you’re auditing your IT assets by hand, you probably know that a manual approach to IT inventory management is neither desirable nor scalable. Not only are you wasting your valuable time, but the data is often out of date as soon as you’ve captured it. And let’s face it, if you don’t have current information detailing your IT assets, how can you proactively manage and configure them to align to your corporate standards and policies?

IT deployments are complicated these days, regardless of the scale or size of the organization. With virtual and mobile technologies prevalent in nearly all IT shops, managing the constant change is challenging. Automating the inventory management across your hybrid environment can quickly ease a long-standing burden for most IT organizations. But it goes beyond knowing what you have and how it’s configured to network location, software inventory and financial lifecycle tracking.

Numara FootPrints Asset Core home delivers one-click access to your asset management including devices, deployment status, patch management and security vulnerabilities. Instant eXpert walks you through step-by-step instructions for optimizing Asset Core configurations and troubleshooting tips.

Numara® Software FootPrints® Inventory Manager delivers end-to-end IT Asset Management including:

• Hardware inventory
• Software License Management
• Financial Asset Management
• Device topology maps displaying asset dependencies
• Software compliance and usage
• Security settings inventory
• Historical change management for managed assets
• User-focused approach to software and policy management

The information maintained in the inventory manager database supports additional asset management activities including remotely managing devices, leveraging intelligent software management and deploying patches and updates for both operating systems and applications.

Dynamically view asset dependencies and relationships in drill-down topology maps.

Automate inventory management

FootPrints Inventory Manager automates the entire data-gathering process for your fixed and mobile IT assets whether they’re Windows®, MacOS®, Linux®, or VMWare® Workstations, servers (physical or virtual), laptops or mobile/peripheral devices. After the initial audit you will have a complete view of your IT assets, including their current hardware and software configurations. From the FootPrints Inventory Manager console, easily manage configuration changes or enforce change-control policies across your network as well as access detailed historical data and real time inventory updates. FootPrints Inventory Manager does all of this online or offline (without the need for a VPN) and supports both agent and agentless modes of asset discovery.

The risks that unlicensed or unauthorized software found on your users’ machines pose for your organization have never been greater. According to IDC, 27% of corporate software may be unlicensed and therefore illegal, while 25% of downloads may contain malicious code or spyware. Unfortunately, ignorance is no defense.

FootPrints Inventory Manager tracks and reports on all software on all devices accessing your network, whether they are authorized or unauthorized. Leveraging simple operational rules, you can easily ensure that only approved and licensed software is running on your users’ machines. But it’s not only the unauthorized software that you need to have your eye on. Authorized software should be tracked both for usage trends and financial impacts. It is common to have both over-deployed and under-utilized software licenses, both issues that costs organizations money.

Track financial data from purchase to retirement including valuation, warranty, maintenance and depreciation. Identify parent and child relationships for asset dependencies.

The Numara FootPrints family of solutions

FootPrints Inventory Manager is part of the FootPrints family of products and solutions for IT Lifecycle and IT Service Management. Built from the ground up as a modular yet integrated system, FootPrints products can be purchased separately or as a part of our broader FootPrints solutions including: Service Management, Service Desk, Lifecycle Management, Desktop Management and Security & Compliance Management.

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