Network inventory management is the process of managing the assets which connected over the network. Network inventory management includes both hardware and software assets. Additionally, it provides detailed information such as software installed, Windows events, serial numbers, IP address etc.  Commonly network inventory is the list of assets which connected over the network.

What Network Inventory Management Software will do?

There are many ways to manage inventory assets. Spreadsheet method was one of the most used traditional methods. Managing inventory assets by the spreadsheet method was very complicated one. This will create an inaccurate asset record and need more manual effort to correct it. Hence, there is a need for an automated inventory management system. The more automated system brings less paperwork and errors.

IT Asset Management software can help to manage the network inventory. The inventory management software automatically collects up to date list of assets. Additionally it keeps track of asset history. The organization can maintain physical record of all assets within the network. This is one of the advantage of using inventory management software. Above all the inventory management software can also capture the detailed information of the asset.

Some of them are

• Total connected devices
• The domain of the device
• Operating System of the device
• Hardware component details
• Installed program details
• Controller information
• Accounts used in a device
• Recent modification details

How Network inventory management can help in business?

Spend minutes not days

Network inventory provides software and hardware report of the network in a minute. Whereas, Manual information collection and composing reports may create an error. Additionally, it has the ability to export the report in both CSV and PDF formats.

Know your assets

Network inventory management can help to know the assets.  Apart from asset tracking, it also used to get more details like type of software installed, modified data to the login users and much more.

Hardware and software asset tracker

Some inventory management software’s track either hardware assets or software assets. But inventory management software of IT asset management system, you can track both hardware and software assets.

Simple configuration

The configuration of the IT Asset Management can complete by just a few steps. Therefore, anyone can use this without any complexity. Only need to configure the range for the entire process.

Change tracker

Yo can capture changes made to an IT Asset with the inventory management software. So that, tracking of all hardware and software asset changes happening in the IT Infrastructure is possible.

Time saver

The network inventory management automatically adds the network inventory device in the asset list. Hence, it saves time, spends on making entries one by one into the system. Furthermore, effective decision making based on accurate asset status helps to save time.

 

Also read, Fixed asset audit procedures