IT Asset management is the process of managing and monitoring it assets found in a network. You can manage LAN as well as work from home endpoints from a central location. Using IT Asset management (ITAM) software, you can manage both hardware and software assets in your network anywhere, anytime, from your laptop or mobile phone. It also helps in keeping track of digital assets. With the help of asset scans, you can easily configure alerts to notify you regarding any change detected in the hardware or software inventory. RMM Central's IT Asset Management (ITAM) Software offers effortless management of physical and digital assets along with predefined inventory reports and email notifications to track, monitor and manage everything from a single console.
Here is a complete list of IT asset tracking and management features offered by RMM Central for a comprehensive IT asset management (ITAM):
In today's fast-paced world, devices are replaced or upgraded within the blink of an eye, at an alarming frequency. It is your job as an IT Administrator to keep track of all these changes/additions and ensure that only authorized devices are connected to your network. RMM Central's IT asset tracking and management software scans your network periodically to fetch software and hardware inventory details and detect any changes in your network. You can perform asset scanning in RMM Central's IT Asset Management software in the following ways:
Keeping track of hardware warranty can help you save unnecessary maintenance costs. RMM Central's IT Asset Management software automatically detects warranty details for Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba and HP devices and has pre-configured reports for computers with about-to-expire warranty and computers for which the warranty has expired already.
With the help of the asset tracking software you can set up real-time notifications for whenever a new software is installed, a hardware component is added/removed, software is under licensed or is being used after license expiry, commercial software is installed/uninstalled, disk space on a computer falls below a specified percentage, and more in just a few clicks.
You can cut down on significant expenses by monitoring the usage of commercial software, and ensuring that you're using the licenses efficiently. With RMM Central's Asset management software, you can view detailed reports and determine whether the software usage justifies the cost, which helps you make informed procurement decisions.
Ensuring you're license compliant at all times can help you steer clear of hefty non-compliance fines during a software audit. RMM Central's IT asset tracking and management software makes this process a whole lot easier by detecting your compliance status automatically.
Staying up-to-date and informed about the assets present in your network empowers you to make data-backed decisions about acquiring new assets, which will lead to cutting unnecessary expenses. RMM Central's IT Asset Management (ITAM) software offers in-depth reports related to both hardware and software asset management along with all the relevant metrics.
Using asset tracking software, gain visibility on the type of files present in your network by setting up rules and scheduling scans. You can set up file scan rules(audio, video, documents, etc) and determine how much space is being occupied by these files. If required, you can notify users to delete unnecessary files on computers with low free disk space.
As a system administrator, you need to ensure that none of the computers have any prohibited software installed on them. Using RMM Central's asset management software, you can prohibit software and add an auto uninstall policy within a few clicks. You also have the option to notify the user and request them to uninstall the software on their own. In some cases, malicious software doesn't need to be installed on the computer and can be run from an external drive. To prevent the usage of such applications, you can block these executables. This will prevent the application from being executed which will in turn prevent attacks/data breaches.
Because of the sheer number of assets in enterprises, IT asset management softwares can be intimidating. Here are a few best practices you can weave into your existing ITAM strategy to ensure optimum results: