Inventory management
From the acquisition onwards, through installation, initial operation, maintenance and disposal, IT facilities must be identified clearly and localized with pinpoint accuracy. This is a basic requirement not only if IT services are to be rendered efficiently and in compliance with the respective contract, but also if the company as a whole is to run efficiently.
The ever-growing and increasingly complex IT landscapes require continuous hardware and software procurements as well as upgrades. An inventory management function should supply the IT manager with data on all the network components and computer systems at the click of a mouse. This also encompasses:
- service level management
- capacity and availability management
- security management.
In large, heterogeneous networks in particular, IT infrastructure management is indispensable. This term is taken to mean the listing of all the assets and the type and extent of their utilization. Doing this requires the following, among other things:
- comprehensive information on all network resources and their historization
- comprehensive depiction of the resources used
- far-reaching automation
- the system being real-time-enabled.
From the cost center to the revenue optimizer
Resource recognition and the optimum utilization of an existing network's potential make it possible for the company to reduce its costs and maximise its profits. Modern inventory management systems can do more than that, however. The automated inventory function is the first step towards an efficient commercial and accounting basis for your network infrastructure.
Few suppliers are currently capable of recording even large, heterogeneous networks in all their complexity. But this real-time-enabled, automated recording of all the relevant assets is precisely what makes the difference, not only because of the cost-intensive nature of manual recording, but also because of its susceptibility to errors.
The first resource administration with pinpoint locating in real time
The AUCONET inventory management in PortSecurityManager offers you the centralized and total visual depiction of your entire IT environment in real time – and tells you precisely which device where has what physical condition and attributes.
Inventory management in PortSecurityManager:
- is vendor-independent
- works in real time
- facilitates automatic recognition and pinpoint localization
- carries out an automatic inventory of your internal network assets
- comprehensively integrates existing asset management systems
- supports seamless integration into the existing environment
- offers virtual CMDB
- optimizes the capacity utilization of your existing network potential
Find out more about the evolutionary resource administration provided by PortSecurityManager.
