Asset Inventory

Without detailed and accurate visibility into your IT assets, you are attempting to blindly manage one of the most strategic and cost intensive resources your company owns. Without visibility and capability to confidently inspect and analyze what you have, where it is located, how it is configured, and who is using it, you cannot possibly make accurate strategic or tactical decisions that affect your operational efficiency, risk management effectiveness, and ultimately, your company’s bottom line.

Asset Inventory is the foundation of IT infrastructure management and a benchmark upon which IT operations and asset management functions are judged. Be sure you know what you have. Be confident in its accuracy and completeness.

What is BigFix Asset Inventory?

Included in the BigFix Systems Lifecycle Management suite, BigFix Asset Inventory is a natural extension to BigFix Asset Discovery, which finds all the IP-enabled devices on your network, even on the farthest reaches of your infrastructure. Combining discovery, inventory and the software license management capabilities of BigFix Software Asset Management, organizations can leverage asset information for deep, dynamic, and continuous management of the entire IT enterprise.

Find out what’s really on your network and actively maintain compliance with configuration standards and baselines. Gain deep visibility into BigFix Agent-equipped assets, even as they roam off the corporate network and onto the public Internet. Inspect and report on hundreds of hardware and software attributes out of the box, across platforms, in real time, at massive scale. Radically expand the inspected attributes reported about your systems using proprietary BigFix scripting and inspectors to reach deeper and wider into the mysterious far reaches of your IT assets and landscapes.

Gain situational awareness about what’s going on in the infrastructure – in contrast to traditional asset management, which tends to be just that, a sporadic Easter egg hunt resulting in static snapshots that fail to capture fast changing conditions. The pervasiveness, real-time reporting, information depth, scalability, and flexibility of the BigFix platform open the floodgates to a series of radical changes in how organizations manage and harvest value from their IT infrastructure.

Features and Benefits:

• Continuous, autonomous, real-time assessment
• Massively parallel processing with radically-minimized network, server, and endpoint impact
• Accurate, real-time inventories of IT assets to optimize cost management and ROI
• Data reporting covers Active Directory, hundreds of hardware properties, serial numbers, populated bus slots, USB port status, RAM values, attached peripherals, software installations and versions/patch levels, vulnerability postures, and hundreds more.
• Visibility extends across LAN and WAN infrastructures—even roaming devices
• Cross-platform support: Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac
• Set and maintain configuration baselines based on retrieved properties
• Link baseline configuration policies to automated remediation actions
• Quickly create additional attributes to report on custom properties of your assets