Server Manager

Auditing Features

Why Audit Servers?

Auditing is generally not a voluntary activity, and is definately not something that IT staff do for their enjoyment! Auditing is most often needed to answer legal, commercial or project planning questions, often thrust upon an IT Group from other parts of the organisation. Hence there is little or no enthusiasm for the process and some may even see it as threatening.

The main reasons for Auditing are:

• License Compliance Checking
• System Change Planning
• Standards Conformity
• Estate Valuation
• Asset Management

With the Workstation Auditor and Workstation Manager Products, Lanboss has made the audit of an estate a meaningful and valuable experience.

License Compliance Checking

• Locating all software implemented in the PC’s and laptops that a company uses
• Providing a structured way to organise the applications and record all proof of ownership of software licenses
• Helping the company find their software license deficiencies or over purchases
• Delivering the necessary proof of compliance for organisations like the Federation Against Software Theft or the Business Software Alliance
• Ensuring that company directors do not fall foul of the copyright theft laws

Auditing for IT Change Risk Management

• Find out what you are dealing with… before the event
• Base decisions on fact, not assumptions
• Be able to plan ahead

Vital Decision Support Information

• Workstations that will be affected by a change of service
• UNCs per workstation, workstations per UNC
• Workstation Network Configuration
• Network Clients installed
• Who is mapping where

Licensing & Assets

• Tracking software maintenance costs
• Removing unused applications
• Correlation of what purchased against what is installed
• Estate hardware summarisation
• Insurance (growing need for detailed info)
• Asset Tracking & Retirement

System Changes

• Workstation upgradeability
• User activities and ‘hotdesking’, ‘Footprint’ on local machines
• Applications in use, core services being accessed
• USMT & UNC management
• Shared storage space usage
• Network Printing environment