Inventory management
BMC Client Management Inventory is part of a fully integrated line of IT service and asset management solutions. Each product automates and streamlines a specific IT challenge to help you reduce costs and improve service levels. Built from the ground up as a modular, yet integrated system, this family of technologies provides a single, unified solution to simplify a diverse set of complex client lifecycle and service management needs.
The following table lists the main features of inventory management:
Feature | Description |
|---|---|
Inventory | Maintain control with a comprehensive inventory of hardware assets across the entire organization; auto-deploy and update BMC Client Management agent; manage changes to hardware or software configurations, enforce change control policies, and maintain detailed inventory history. |
Software license management | Show proof of entitlements and know what software licenses are being used. |
Financial asset management | Achieve complete cradle-to-grave asset management workflow by receiving assets, tracking financial data, retiring assets, and reporting on depreciation. |
Virtual infrastructure management | Discover virtual hosts and guests, and change the stop/pause/start state to perform maintenance or troubleshoot issues. |
Security inventory | Collect specific data on key security settings with ease, including installed / update status for anti-virus and anti-spyware, as well as firewall configuration or shared resources. |
Self-healing | Maintain the integrity of an application with routine checks that automatically correct an application even after events that compromise the core files. |
Agent/agentless discovery | Support both agent and agentless discovery of assets and provide detailed configuration information. |
Data import | Perform customized data imports, such as assets and user fields from external sources. |
Next-generation and multi-OS support | Support discovery of network devices for Windows, macOS, Linux®, VMware workstations, servers, laptops, and network devices; core agent support for Redhat 7, 8 and 9, macOS, Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019 and 2022, Windows 8, 10 and 11, and Microsoft SQLServer2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022. |
Windows-embedded client support | Discover, deploy, troubleshoot, assess, and update Windows-embedded devices through a single management console. |
Audit now | Update the summary asset data in near real-time (summary asset data provides quick navigation to hardware, software, and security information). |
MyApps | Puts pre-approved software and access requests in the hands of the end user. It's the app store for the desktop - IT can advertise available software applications, advanced actions and quick links for the end-users to access on their schedule, not IT's. |