Revenue could potentially show some ads.
Get and store information about how to track hardware/software updates on your systems.
From sun.com: Stop writing serial numbers on a spreadsheet, and let your system do it for you. Use the free Sun Connection Inventory Channel to see at a glance what you have.
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2008.02.25
Novell today purchased PlateSpin.
PowerRecon Features and Requirements
Standard Features
Remote Data Collection
PowerRecon remotely collects inventory and performance data with no need to physically touch data center servers. PowerRecon's run-once inventory collector gathers comprehensive server inventory data while performance data is collected agentlessly via standard OS instrumentation capabilities.
Rich Data Modeling
Make better consolidation choices based on sophisticated analysis of resources, workloads and utilization trends. Tight integration with VMware VirtualCenter provides greater visibility into your virtual infrastructure, improving data center management and operations.
Custom Report Creation
and Delivery
Define resource and workload parameters and generate custom visual reports to accelerate data center assessments and server consolidations. Quickly identify consolidation candidates based on resource utilization trends and compare workload characteristics before and after consolidation. Scheduled report delivery via email or FTP ensures easy access to remote data and provides up-to-date information for decision making.
Flexible Data Capture and Export
PowerRecon data can be easily exported to a number of formats including HTML, PDF, Word, CSV, Excel or images for flexible report creation. Raw data can be extracted directly from the database and delivered to business intelligence applications for statistical analysis.
Enterprise-Level Scalability
Robust data collection, analysis and planning for all servers in the network puts PowerRecon in a class all its own for large-scale data center consolidation projects. Each instance of PowerRecon can monitor up to 1,500 servers to ensure scalability for the world’s largest data centers. Data can be aggregated from multiple PowerRecon data collectors for centralized data warehousing, analysis and planning or to accommodate larger enterprises.
Multiple-Data Center Support
Distribute PowerRecon to different geographical locations to remotely collect data and schedule updates to a master PowerRecon installation, enabling centralized analysis and planning for initiatives like server or data center consolidation
Flexible Chargeback Reporting
Because virtualization creates a pool of computing resources, it can be difficult to manage and monitor how virtual resources are being used and by whom. PowerRecon allows organizations to effectively allocate and share virtual resources across various business units and departmental owners. PowerRecon’s flexible chargeback reporting capabilities improve virtual infrastructure management and financial accounting by allowing organizations to calculate IT costs based on actual resource usage.
VM Growth Reporting
Run virtual machine growth reports to monitor the proliferation of virtual machines and avoid the administrative headaches associated with virtual infrastructure sprawl.
Planning Module Features
Planning
Automatically generate server consolidation and disaster recovery plans based on detailed workload analysis to ensure the optimal fit between server workloads and virtual resources. The ability to use forecasted data ensures that plans will accommodate future growth.
Workload Analysis
The PowerRecon Planning Module automatically analyzes the five critical dimensions of workload – CPU, disk, memory, network and
time – across thousands of servers simultaneously, providing plans that maximize utilization while minimizing resource contention.
Scenario Modeling
Create custom scenarios with user-defined target server specifications including server templates or existing virtual machine servers to create an optimal consolidation plan.
Power and Cooling Analysis
Compare and contrast potential power and cooling cost savings and ROI derived from different consolidation scenarios. Custom fields allow power and cooling requirements for major hardware platforms to be maintained in a central database, enabling organizations to analyze and cost-justify green computing initiatives.
Time-Based Analysis
Stagger multiple workloads evenly across virtual hosts and account for hourly peaks and valleys inherent in server utilization trends.
Workload and Utilization Forecasting
Predict future workloads and resource utilization based on historical trends to better plan for server consolidation and infrastructure growth, and enable more proactive systems management. Forecasting data on CPU, disk, memory and usage trends is presented in easy-to-read charts, reports and plans.
System Requirements
PowerRecon Server
Multiplatform Monitoring
Microsoft Windows
* Windows NT 4.0
* Windows 2000 Server
* Windows 2000 Advanced Server
* Windows Server 2003
* Windows XP
UNIX*
* Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10
(Sparc and x86)
* Sun Solaris 7 (Sparc)
Linux
* RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0
* RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS/ES,3.0 AS/ES,
4.0 AS/ES and 4.4 AS/ES
* Novel SuSE 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.0, 10.1
Virtual Machines
* VMware Infrastructure 3
* VMware ESX Server
* VMware Server
* Microsoft Virtual Server
* Virtual Iron
* Xen Enterprise
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2008.03.31
Pointdev's IDEAL Administration simplifies the administration of your NT and Active Directory domains by providing in a single tool all the necessary features for managing domains, servers, and users.
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2008.09.12
Peruse_IT documents configurations and enables audits from the documentation book.
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2009.03.20
sysCompare Lite $99
sysCompare Pro $1499
Inventory, report, compare.
http://mtmsoftware.com/syscompareproinfo.html
Local and network scanning - including the ability to save scans and compare over time
Automatic detection and reporting of configuration differences
Report creation, print layout control and exports to PDF
User controllable UI elements and display properties
...
Hardware Components
System Information - BIOS, Power on Passwords, Manufacturer and Memory Details
Processors - ID, Manufacturer, Clock Speeds, Cores, Logical Processors, Voltage, Cache Size and Revision
Memory - Bank Labels, Capacity, Type, Form Factor, and Speed
Plug and Play Devices
Network Adapter details
Hard Drive details
Problem devices
Printers
Software Components
Operating System Properties - OS Version, Machine Name, Build Number, Service Pack Level, Domain Membership, Virtual Memory and Windows Activation
Services - Name, Description, State, Start Mode, Service Account, and Starting Path
Running Drivers - Name, Manufacturer, Version, Time/Date Stamps, State and Startup State
Running Processes
Unsigned Drivers in use
Startup Applications and Tasks
Environment Variables
System Patches and Hotfixes
Shared files and folders
Page File Configuration
Windows Debugging and Memory Dump Configurations
Installed Applications
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$800 base + $3/node.
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http://mcmtechnology.com/content.asp?id=97966
Asset 360°™ Solution is structured to track the following information about each individual asset:
date of acquisition
purchase cost / funding association
real-time location and status
transfer history
maintenance and warranty status
repair history
Highlight Features:
Organize assets by relating them to the Agency to which they are assigned
Maintain a real-time record on each individual asset
Search your asset inventory by any desired criteria through a powerful browse tool
Create work orders against an Agency or Asset(s)
Monitor your service productivity
Track assets and service work related to a project
Relieve and replenish your parts inventory via work orders and purchase orders, respectively
Bill individual Agencies / Departments for labor and materials
plus much more!
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2919.09
IBM purchased MAXIMO asset management. Being implemented in 25 DISA data centers, presumably under GSO contract. Implementation overruns and data conversion is not done.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/maximo-asset-mgmt/index.html?tactic=featuredhome
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