IT Audit Report

When an IT service company gets a new client - an organization that needs to outsource it's IT needs to them - the consulting company has to generate the full audit of the client's computer infrastructure before they can even calculate the price for their services.

When generating the IT audit report for these needs, the consulting company uses different programs that do the full audit of the client's IT assets. This is a very special type of software: security auditing programs that find vulnerability issues in the company IT infrastructure, network inventory software that detect detailed information on the workstations, servers and network devices connected to the company's LAN, etc.

In this article we will discuss the network inventory issue. The programs of this kind scan the company network and collect all possible configuration information about each item found. For computers, they reveal computer type (PC/server/etc), computer vendor, model, serial number that can be used when contacting vendor's technical support services, etc. For PC hardware settings, the programs of this kind detect CPU model and speed, memory size installed, hard disk drives information, network and graphic card names and characteristics and even dsplay adapter name and resolution.

For software aspect, a network audit program writes down OS name and version, service packs and hotfixes installed. It also retrieves the full list of software (with version numbers and even with the registration keys for the most popular software titles) installed on each PC. Antivirus software name, version and the last antivirus database date are also included into the IT audit report generated by this software.

Please check one of the best sofware titles of this kind - Asset Tracker for Networks. This program retrieves over one megabyte of inventory data from each PC being detected! Please use the links below to download the free evaluation version of Asset Tracker for Networks:

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