LANDesk Inventory Manager

Fast, current, accurate knowledge is the foundation of effective IT infrastructure planning, maintenance, and replacement decisions. It’s also at the heart of effective IT governance, which requires responding to audits to demonstrate compliance with regulatory mandates, software licenses, and industry standards. Simply collecting data isn’t enough. You need the ability to extract and analyze specific information from a unified, centralized database. You also need the power to turn data into knowledge so you can improve service while reducing costs, plus the agility to demonstrate asset and license compliance. That’s why we created LANDesk® Inventory Manager.

Asset Intelligence You Can Depend On

LANDesk Inventory Manager helps you turn raw data into pure business intelligence. Besides using it to automate key IT asset management tasks, you can use it to:

• Control costs and increase efficiency by knowing what you have, where it is, and how it’s being used
• Gain the power and agility to demonstrate asset and license compliance with active device discovery and inventory, easy database query, and powerful reporting tools
• Respond to audit requirements and reduce the risk of litigation by easily gathering, tracking, and reporting on hardware, software, and service use throughout the enterprise
• Increase efficiency and improve planning with extensive business intelligence reporting

Control Costs and Increase Efficiency

You’d be surprised how many companies have no idea what assets they have or how or if they’re being used. LANDesk Inventory Manager helps your enterprise see, monitor, and maintain inventory so you can boost efficiency and control costs. It enables you to discover any managed or unmanaged IP-enabled device on the network, and you can even find misplaced or forgotten computers, printers, and routers. And LANDesk extended device discovery (XDD) technology provides a scalable discovery process for real-time, subnet-level tracking of unmanaged networked devices—even if they have a firewall enabled.

With LANDesk Inventory Manager, you can also gather basic inventory data directly from devices running virtually any operating system. The LANDesk management agent and inventory scanner accesses detailed hardware, software, and OS configuration data to help you maintain an extensive inventory of computer resources.

You can also maximize efficiency with LANDesk’s multithreaded inventory service and offcore inventory service option. With multithreaded inventory service, you realize inventory performance that’s significantly more efficient than single-threaded inventory. And off-core inventory service allows you to offload data collection and insertion to a server other than the core—a real bonus if you’re managing many users and want to reserve core server performance for other tasks, or if you have underutilized servers that can be put to better use.

Once you’ve gathered inventory data, an easy-to-use query tool helps you analyze it and group assets according to attributes so you can make effective business decisions and plan for software rollouts, upgrades, and other IT tasks. And the ability to run recurring, automated inventory scans helps you understand what you have without walking from desk to desk to manually gather data.

You also don’t have to worry about reinstalling agents or rediscovering the same unmanaged device again and again. Agent Watcher helps keep your managed environment on track by restarting a downed agent, restoring a renamed agent to its original state, and alerting your IT team if a user removes or tampers with the agent.

Improve Planning and Compliance

LANDesk Inventory Manager lets you quickly identify needs, deficiencies, and the status of both hardware and software assets, and it includes extensive business-intelligence reporting capabilities that offer immediate access to inventory overview reports. And a powerful builtin report designer lets you develop custom reports that address your enterprise’s specific business and planning needs.

In addition, a robust query builder enables you to extract specific asset data without writing complex code. Data export enables you to analyze information using your own data analysis and reporting tools. And complete asset management and reporting helps you demonstrate compliance with license agreements, standards such as IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley.

Gather Hardware and Software Inventory Securely over the Internet

If your enterprise has multiple locations and/or mobile users, LANDesk Inventory Manager allows you to securely gather hardware and software inventory over the Internet without having to invest in or maintain a VPN or leased line.

And when you extend your inventory and systems management capabilities with LANDesk® Management Suite and the LANDesk® Management Gateway Appliance, you can gather hardware and software inventory, monitor software licenses, perform ondemand remote control, access policy-based software distribution, and more—no matter where your systems are located and without punching a hole in your firewall. Using an existing Internet connection, the LANDesk Management Gateway Appliance gathers data from up to 4,000 active connections at once. Your IT team can manage systems inside or outside the firewall from the convenience of a single administration console, eliminating significant VPN and travel costs.