Free Edition IT asset tracking involves the recording, tracking and monitoring of all hardware and software in an IT environment. Tracking IT assets helps in making crucial decisions when it comes to purchasing hardware or distributing software. An IT asset tracking software eliminates the need of manual asset tracking since it is time consuming, cumbersome and prone to human error. Desktop Central's asset tracking system can streamline the way you keep tabs on your hardware and software assets.
An IT asset tracking software tracks and monitors all IT assets operating in an organization network. This includes all software and hardware inventory in the enterprise which is crucial to any IT Administrator. An asset tracking and management software is a must to know the inventory available in your enterprise.
Tracking IT assets may not be all that simple especially when you have computers spread across branch offices. Moreover manual tracking of assets can be resource-intensive, time consuming and also error-prone at times. An automated asset tracking software reduces workload on the average system administrator and registers IT assets across the organization for better flexibility, control and resource utilization.
You can make use of the Asset Tracking capabilities of Desktop Central, and keep yourself up-to-date about the Software and Hardware Inventory in your organization. With Desktop Central, you can have a complete list of the hardware and software assets in your organization at your finger tips. Desktop Central provides the following IT asset tracking solutions:
Desktop Central helps you run a scan on the desktops and servers in your Windows network. During the asset scan, the Desktop Central Agents that reside in the client computers collect all the software and hardware asset information from those machines. The collected information is then stored in a database on the Desktop Central Server. Desktop Central supports both manual and scheduled asset scanning. The manual scan can be triggered by the administrator whenever he wishes to see the asset details. Scheduled asset scanning helps to track network assets on a periodic basis.
Desktop Central's Hardware Asset Tracker, scans the Windows desktops/servers in a network, collects the hardware details and stores them in a database. Some of the hardware assets that the application tracks include Processor, IDE Controller, Logical Disk, Serial Port, Desktop Monitor, Battery, Keyboard, USB Hub/Controller, Sound Device, etc. The data is available in form of reports and can be used to understand the usage metrics of hardware. The most common reports that are used in the Hardware Asset Tracking activity are:
Desktop Central's asset tracking system in the Software Inventory module periodically scans the Windows Desktops / Servers in the network and collects inventory details of the software installed along with their usage pattern. Software Asset Tracking can help understand the usage frequency pattern. License Management of commercial software that are installed/used in the network can be performed in an effective way. Desktop Central helps IT administrators perform the following tasks with respect to Software Inventory Tracking:
Desktop Central helps simplify software license management using the following built-in reports:
Desktop Central uses email alert notifications to keep administrators informed about the assets in their network. An alert message is immediately in the event of occurrence of one of the following:
Desktop Central offers a comprehensive list of reports that give away all the required information pertaining to the inventory in your network. Apart from the inventory information, License Compliance and Software usage details can also be obtained. You can generate over a dozen pre-defined reports along with a wide range of user-defined custom and query reports. There are also options to export the generated reports in PDF and CSV file formats. Track IT assets for free starting today with Desktop Central.