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Netsol Asset Manager 3.5 is a robust, scalable tool for managing IT and non IT assets. Asset Manager allows IT managers and administrators to record, identify, control and track all assets in their environment. It provides the ability to track assets by various identifiers like location, department, status, history, warranty, invoice, purchase order and other financial information.
Asset Manager includes an ITIL® compliant Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Asset Manager 3.5 is also integrated with Netsol’s ITIL® centric helpdesk (coDesk) and provides insight into issues, incidents, change requests and problems associated with each asset. More information on Netsol coDesk is available here.
Asset Manager provides the following features and benefits to help manage IT Assets efficiently.
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| Web based, centralized asset management |
Provides real time access to uniform set of asset related data to uses located in multiple locations |
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| Includes full featured Configuration Management Database (CMDB) |
Provides ITIL® recommended best practices to be implemented out of the box |
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| Automated, Agentless Discovery |
Provides on-demand and scheduled discovery of desktops, servers, laptops, routers, switches, printers, etc. Allows automated tracking of IT Assets eliminating need for manual intervention |
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| Hardware and Software Inventory Scanning |
Automatically scan and records hardware and software installed on each desktop, server and laptop. Tracks and generates email/SMS alerts when changes are detected. Hardware inventory information like BIOS, serial number, RAM, hard disks, motherboard details; OS name/version and service packs, installed software and their versions can be tracked |
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| Policy Compliance |
Track compliance for software and OS licenses, resource utilization, authorized and un-authorized software. Generates email alerts and SNMP traps on policy violations.Provides real-time and historical compliance reports across locations, departments, etc |
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| Integrated with Netsol's ITIL® helpdesk |
Track and analyze service requests, incidents, problems and change requests associated with assets |
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| Wizard based, metadata based run time asset type creation |
Allows creating new asset types including custom fields by end users. Allows relating configuration items to one another in a flexible manner |
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| Rich support for barcode based identification |
Allows error free and efficient method to verify asset details including location, configuration, etc |
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| Track assets based on multiple attributes |
Track inventory by asset types like servers, desktops, laptops, routers, switches, links, databases, operating systems, installed applications, etc. Track inventory by owners, end users, projects, departments, locations, buildings, cubicles, etc. |
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| Track contract information like Warranties, Support Contracts, Vendors, Suppliers with assets |
Helps IT staff to identify vendors and contracts to quickly upgrade, fix and service assets |
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| Track financial information like Purchase Orders, Invoices, Payments, Insurance, Depreciation with assets |
Helps IT staff to identify procurement, delivery, ordering and payment related issues |
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| Rich Analytics and Reports |
Identify ownership and usage of assets by compliance, departments, projects, organizations, geography. Locations. Identify orphan and idle assets. Track policy compliance |
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| Scalable and Efficient Architecture |
Scalable design ensures low CPU and memory foot-print, reduced TCO while supporting thousands of assets distributed across multiple locations with minimal network overhead |
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Features
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Web based, centralized management of IT and non-IT assets
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Categorize, Identify, Track and Maintain assets
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Automatically discover IT assets like desktops, servers, printers, routers, switches without any need to install agents
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Perform periodic or on demand inventory scan to automatically record and track hardware details related to BIOS, Motherboard, CPU, RAM, hard disks, installed software, OS version and service packs, etc
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Define and track policies for software and OS license compliance - to eliminate license usage violations and related legal issues
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Define and track policies for resource utilization and authorized and un-authorized software usage
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Includes ITIL® compliant Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
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Seamless integration with ITIL® centric helpdesk (coDesk) for bi-directional incident, problem and change management.
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Support for barcode (code128, code39, UPC, EAN, etc) based identification
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Understand and document relationships of assets on each other
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Understand impact of assets on an IT Service offering
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Track status, history, changes, problems, incidents, issues for each asset
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Track Vendors, Invoices, Payments, Depreciation, Maintenance contracts, Warranties
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Associate and manage additional, custom information for any asset type
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Dynamically support new type of asset (custom) with custom fields
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Track inventory by asset types like servers, desktops, laptops, routers, switches, links, databases, operating systems, installed applications, etc
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Track inventory by owners, end users, projects, departments, locations, buildings, cubicles, etc
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Proactive email alerts on license compliance violations, asset changes, warranty expiry, etc
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Strong access control, permissions and security model
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Supports Microsoft® Active Directory based authentication
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Rich Analytics, real time reports and dashboards
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Can support extremely large number of assets and multiple concurrent users
Typical System Requirements
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Dependent on scale of IT Infrastructure including number of assets to be managed
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Application Server and collector(s)- Intel single CPU, 1-2 GB RAM, 40 GB hard disk with Windows XP/2003 OS and MS SQL 2005 database
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Database, Application Server and collectors can be installed on same or separate servers
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