IT Asset Management is one of the primary business issues facing organizations today. Sarbanes Oxley and a overall positive sentiment towards software licensing is causing organizations to closely monitor their IT infrastructure. Software tools that enable organizations to monitor their PC inventory, including hardware and software inventory levels, are crucial in the business environment. CEO's, CFO's, CIO's, IT Directors and the wider IT administration staff are coming under increased pressure to be able to provide cost effective auditing software and software asset management information.
iQNetScan is a simple to use, yet very powerful, network software auditing tool that provides detailed PC inventory information. iQNetScan forms part of the iQuate IT Asset Management suite, providing a comprehensive software auditing and asset management solution.
Clientless Auditing Software
iQNetScan is a "client free" software auditing product. This means that there is no need to install any software on the target PC's (which is usually every computer on the network). This network auditing software tool runs on a single PC, gathering detailed information from all of the PC's on the network. This PC inventory information is presented in a series of pre-built reports, which can be easily customized to suit your own, specific requirements.
Read about how iQNetScan addresses the following issues
| Staying Legal Change Management Network Auditing Desktop Security Asset Management
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The only way to ensure that you have total control and visibility of your network is to run a daily audit. iQNetScan's software tracking and change management functionality can notify you about any configuration change that takes place on any of the the PC's on your network (such as an application being installed/upgraded or an application being removed). Software audits can be run automatically in the background or on demand from any PC. Using iQNetScan auditing software, you can eliminate the risks of running unlicensed or "unwanted" software. You will also have up-to-the minute IT asset management information regarding the IT assets on the network.
Examples of changes monitored include:
- Addition or removal of software
- Addition or removal of patches
- Changes in service pack level
- Disk space dropping below a required minimum level
Network Auditing
iQNetScan is an easy-to-use software tracking and software asset management solution. iQNetScan provides a complete software audit, a comprehensive inventory of software and hardware on the company network in minutes. You can monitor changes and enforce software standards across the organization. iQNetScan audits target PC's over different networks such as LAN's, WAN's and VPN's. iQNetScan allows you to audit your software licenses and hardware inventory, monitor changes and enforce software standards. iQNetScan gathers software and hardware information without the requirement for the installation of a client binary, agent or script on the machines being audited.
Desktop Security
iQNetScan provides comprehensive software inventory information, allowing you to define “unwanted‿ and “required‿ applications, according to your company security and computer usage policies. iQNetScan automatically scans each PC and completes a software audit on your LAN daily. You can configure iQNetScan to email the IT administrators to inform where “unwanted‿ software is found. iQNetScan will provide you with a complete list of those PC's that do NOT have the “required‿ software installed. It may the be company policy to have a particular anti virus product installed onto every PC – iQNetScan network auditing software will tell you which PC's do NOT have the required AV software installed.
Asset Management
License Management
iQNetScan will ensure your software license compliance. iQNetScan auditing software will inform you of how many times each application is installed in your network. You can then compare the results of the software audit with the licenses owned by the company, providing you with detailed information regarding your software compliance.
Financial Reporting
Once you have completed your software audit, iQNetScan compares your purchase price for the various applications with the number of applications that you are under or over licensed, providing you with a detailed analysis of your financial outlay (or saving) for your next upgrade.
Software Metering
iQNetScan network auditing software includes a software metering function. This provides information on how often each user uses their applications along with the last time that the application was used.
Change Management
In today's ever changing environment unwanted modifications to servers and other critical machines can often cause administrative nightmares. Using iQNetScan you can select machines to monitor for changes. iQNetScan will then inform you if anything changes on these machines, ensuring that you always have the latest information on your critical servers, and that you are made aware of all changes made to the machines which you monitor.