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CCS Network Inventory

CCS Network Inventory

CCS Network Inventory is an award-winning hardware and software inventory solution for organizations of any size. It offers features for remote audit of every PC in your network without having to install client modules. By using CCS Network Inventory you can get detailed software, hardware and licensing information from remote PCs within seconds. Powerful reporting module helps you save a lot of time for preparing asset reports.

It also links into CCS HelpDesk to speed problem resolution by providing detailed software, hardware, hot fix, and capacity information right from within the trouble ticket!

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How much effort does your IT department spend on auditing a growing number of PCs, hardware and software upgrade planning, licenses tracking, calculation of infrastructure costs and other related tasks? If you want to increase the efficiency and find a time-saving solution, try CCS Network Inventory, which will become your indispensable assistant assigned to care about audit and inventory of your network computers.

How can CCS Network Inventory be helpful in your day-to-day work? It collects various information about software, hardware and application licenses from remote computers and gives fast and exact answers to questions like:

  • How many desktops have Vista?
  • On which computers is Photoshop CS3 installed?
  • Which computers are running under Windows XP and have less than 1 Gb RAM?
  • Are the available software licenses sufficient or are any additional ones required?
  • How much extra hardware is required for the operating system upgrade?
  • Which desktops lack free space on their hard drives?
  • Are there any unwanted files like .AVI and who has them?

Key Features and Benefits

Software Inventory

Information about software installed on your network computers gives you a strong advantage in your everyday work. Having this information, you can easily detect unwanted applications and applications that require an upgrade as well as improve security and OS health control. Using CCS Network Inventory licenses features optimizes your software purchases because you know, not just guess, how many licenses are needed. The following reported data and features help you save your efforts for coping with software-related problems in your organization:

  • Basic OS information: name, version, installation date, service pack and hotfixes.
  • System and environment settings: services, running processes, shares, startup commands, and scheduled tasks.
  • List of installed applications, including: name, version, publisher, installation path and installation date.
  • Aggregated summary for entire network: total number of installations for every OS and application, and the list of PCs they are installed on.
  • Software license summary for entire network: total number of available, used and required licenses for every application.
  • Changes between scans: list of freshly installed and uninstalled applications.
  • Custom scan results, useful for detecting specific applications: existence of a particular file, registry entry or service.

Hardware Inventory

How often are you unable to make right decision simply because you lack information? When using CCS Network Inventory, you have up-to-date hardware information to make effective decisions. You will be able to plan upgrades more accurately and minimize upgrade costs by identifying how the replaced devices could be reused. Many hours can be spared in case of problems with particular hardware since you will know exactly what PCs require your attention. The following reported data and features help you to keep hardware under control:

 
  • Basic information: processor, motherboard, graphic card, hard drive, CD/DVD drive and network card.
  • Extended information (if available): manufacturer, model name, serial number and manufacturing date.
  • Settings and parameters depending on the hardware type: number of memory banks, maximum and installed memory capacity, total and free space on the hard drive, MAC address, graphics resolution, etc.
  • Aggregated summary for entire network: total quantities of each hardware type, list of PCs where it is used.
  • Query reports with custom conditions: for example, PCs with 1 GB of memory, PCs lacking free space on the hard drive, etc.

Powerful Reporting and Export Utilities

Usually, it's not enough to just collect asset data: tons of collected data also need to be transformed into different reports. A short summary will be fine for your boss but your IT department needs a detailed report. EMCO Network Inventory saves you redundant paperwork and weekends wasted for report preparation. Using the following features, you can always produce any required report easily and on time:

 
  • Generation of predefined print-ready reports in various formats: PDF, RTF, HTML, Plain text, JPEG.
  • Report builder for creating custom reports with extended features: report data manager, report designer and preview.
  • Charting feature ensures easy data perception and illustration. Different chart types are available.
  • All on-screen data can be exported to MS Excel, MS Word, PDF, HTML, Text file and other formats.
  • Export customization: headers/footers, included fields selection, data formats, field width, etc.
  • Data filters in reports ensure that only data meeting pre-defined criteria is included.

 

Integration With CCS HelpDesk Speeds Problem Resolution

Network Inventory information is available with the click of a button from CCS HelpDesk trouble tickets to allow viewing hardware and software configuration, hotfixes and capacity information, to help speed problem resolution.