I won’t go through the laundry list of other tools we have tried along the way and will come straight to the point of getting into the meat of our current solution – Lansweeper, which has met the above requirements while also providing additional functionality that I will get to later in this post. Initial seeding of the database would involve minimal (preferably none) manual inputĮxtensive and easily customizable reporting The inventory tool had to be centralized and web-based

So considering all of the above as requirements for managing our IT assets, here are some additional criteria (features) I wanted to have:

And wouldn’t you know it, sometimes we wanted to run reports to get an idea of who was using what and where. Also, I was not the only one needing access to inventory information and other people needed to make updates to the existing data. Of course, as time went on and the organization kept growing in size, this inventory model would not be sustainable going forward. So a spreadsheet worked out for awhile even though it involved updating the data manually.Īgain, this only worked out for awhile because there was not a lot of equipment to keep track of and changes were not very frequent. I could literally go around visiting each cubicle and make a note of the hardware. When I started managing IT equipment (laptops, monitors, printers, etc.) where I currently work, there was no system in place as the organization was pretty small at the time. In this post I am going to be reviewing Lansweeper asset discovery that I find very helpful to keep track of IT assets, so I thought I would share it with you. I have written about system management and administration tools that I have come across and am currently using, outlining both their strengths and weaknesses.

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