Networking Auditing, Need Your Input
Jason Moore
bigWebApps is actively looking to integrate a third-party network auditing solution into bigWebDesk. The far and away leader at this point is Discovery by Centennial Software! Jon Hernandez of Centennial Software graciously accepted our offer to be a guest author in our newsletter this month.
Here is an excerpt:
"As a 10 year old company, Centennial Software has over 5 million "agents" deployed with over 4500 customers. Through OEM partnerships and integrations we have become the de facto auditing tool for many organizations.
Discovery will provide you with rich asset data including:
- Hardware: machine name, manufacturer, serial number, BIOS date, processor, memory, hard disk size/space, installed adapters, network information
- Identification of file types, eg MP3s, and percentage of disk space used by file type
- Software: vendor, application name, version/patch, last used, frequency of use, licensable & unlicensable applications, product type
- Audit history and record of changes
- Current location tracking to alert administrators to movements, additions and removals"
Our main goal of having him write that newsletter was to get feedback from you addressing your needs (or lack thereof) for a very capable network auditing tool. Please leave your comments and thoughts in the comments section of this post.
Also, Jon has offered to do a webinar presentation showing how Discovery, integrated with bigWebDesk, can help you gain control over the hundreds or thousands of assets that you currently have on your network. There is no date set for this webinar at this time, but if there is interest we can schedule it within a week or so.
We look forward to discussing this with you more.
I am very interested in participating in your next scheduled webinar on Thursday, June 7th- must've missed the announcement about the first webinar. I am very interested in the Asset Upgrade module.
I've been researching different solutions to simplify our process for tracking our hardware and software inventory. The idea of having it integrated within bigWebApps is very appealing.
Please include me in the upcoming webinar.