Hardware Audit

Hardware audit is the most valuable part of the computer infrastructure maintenance jobs. During this job the network adminisrators build the list of hardware devices - workstations, servers, peripheral devices like printers or fax machines and network equipment: switches, hubs, modems, etc. used to support the computer network of the organization. After that each computer or device listed gets equipped with the list of configuration details that fully describe the item. It is CPU model and speed, memory size installed, HDD models, capacity and speed for computers, hardware device name, model and type for network devices and so on.

Hardware audit is rarelly done manually, by recording each computer characteristic on paper. Instead, professionals use specialized programs that to not only perform this task automatically, but also solve related tasks like software license management or buikding the security components report: antivirus versions, list of the servicepacks and hotfixes installed and so on.

One of the best programs of this kind is Asset Tracker for Networks. When launched, this software scans the local area network for workstations, servers and network devices connected and then looks into each found item, revealing all possible hardware details from it. This information is stored in a single location and can be read any time later, allowing the IT team member, IT director or any other responsible employee to access it at any time and see the detailed sttings of each workstation or equipment item in the company.

Moreover, the network administrator can set up this program to automatically re-scan the LAN on the regular basis. In this case he will not only get the most recent, actual information on his company's hardware components and their configuration, but also have the hardware detals change history for each dividual computer item, because after each scan this software compares the recently detected configuration of each device with the previous configuration and records the changes accompanied with the change detection date in a separate datavase.

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