With the Custom Fields function provided within the netOctopus administrator, you'll be able to track the information you need on each of your assets from the day it arrives. Associating purchase dates, purchase prices, and SLA expirations with each computer, netOctopus can also use your formulas to calculate depreciated values. There is virtually no limit to the amount of information you can add to your database, and the spreadsheet-like formulas make it easy to customize.
For traditional inventory, netOctopus can remotely inventory more than 500 hardware and system software items, storing them in netOctopus's own relational databases, or in a standard ODBC backend database such as MS SQL, Oracle and others. Use netOctopus to inventory:
- Detailed hardware information, including manufacturer, model and serial number
- All software installed and active on client machines, including vendor, application name and version
- All active fonts on end user systems
- TCP/IP Information
You can easily create custom reports by simply dragging and dropping the information items you wish to track into the report window. Sort the data quickly using simple or compound filters. Use standard logical operators on any of the 500 information items to create filters, and further customize your reports. Reports can be exported into a variety of formats, including HTML, so that information can be shared with management. Best of all, once you've saved them, all of your standard reports will be only a mouse-click away.
With this kind of detailed information at your fingertips, you'll be able to make appropriate strategic decisions on asset allocation, and enforce local policies. If you are notified of a software audit, you'll be prepared with detailed, complete lists of all installed software on your network. In addition, netOctopus can detect changes (authorized or unauthorized) such as:
- Software installations or removals
- Search all hard drives to find potential liability risks, such as unlicensed MP3 files.
- Hardware changes, such as RAM theft, PCI card removal or Processor upgrades
- Hard disk capacity issues — and netOctopus alerts you to predicted hard drive failures
- IP configuration changes
- Display changes
You might manage a few dozen computers, or thousands of them. Wouldn't it be easier if they were all on your desk? With netOctopus, they can be.
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