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Asked by alankool in Network Auditing Software, Microsoft Applications, Network Management
Asset Management: Im looking for an MS Windows PC/Server asset management solution. It needs to be able to determine the software and hardware installed. This information needs to be rmaintained and any changes logged before a notification is sent to the administrator. This is all reasonably standard stuff for an enterprise asset management solution but the next requirement is where things get difficult and solutions fail to perform.
The solution needs to be able to determine what files belong to each installed application/OS. For example if notes.exe exists then the solution should be able to determine Lotus Notes is installed and what other files installed are associated with that solution. Off the associated files I'm only interested in certain file types; .exe's, .dll's, .zip's, .ini's and .bat's. My hope is that the solution would heuristically dtermine this perhaps using the registry.
I currently have CA's UAM installed and it does the file recognition part using an application list built manually over the the last 3 years. This list has grown in a somewhat organic fashion and as a result I'm uncertain as to the accuracy of its reports.
Can anyone suggest an alternative product that will meet the requirements outlined or even meet the file recognition requirement separately?
20100308-EE-VQP-132 / EE_QW_1_20070628