Network Inventory And Pc Auditing With Newt Professional

By Author: Neyda Tayner
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As a business grows, IT professionals must deal with the increasing number of computer systems, and the resultant increase of difficulty in monitoring those systems. Keeping track of the systems is done by performing a network inventory or PC audit. At some time in the past, doing such an inventory or audit required physically visiting each computer to document everything by hand in a spreadsheet. Fortunately, since then, operating systems and software have improved to make network inventory easier. Due to their usefulness, IT professionals can always use the help of improved software to perform PC auditing and network inventory. NEWT Professional, in development since 2003, has continually improved its ease of use and speed, now able to scan 100 computers in less than 5 minutes. This offers a large savings in time and effort, and the number of items able to be scanned offer information that is valuable to organizations and businesses of every size. With the addition of an extra 25 nodes free, the value has increased even more.

When choosing a network management product, it is good to be aware of two major methods that are used to gather data. One way is to use an agent, the other is agent-less. When using an agent, it is typically installed on each system the software is intended to scan, and must be updated manually. Agent-less software unfortunately often encounters security issues, which demands the IT professional visit some individual machines to correct. NEWT Professional uses advanced network inventory techniques to reduce the security roadblocks that often are the bane of agent-less software, and to circumvent the need to manually install software in order to use the agent method. Doing so has reduced auditing time from hours or days to only minutes.

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