A software license audit is a comprehensive review of an organization’s software assets to ensure compliance with licensing agreements. The analysis is designed to discover all of the installed and deployed software products in the organization’s IT infrastructure, including servers, desktops, laptops, and virtual machines.
The goal is to create a complete inventory of all the software installations matched to purchased licenses and to detect any license shortages or excesses. This enables organizations to optimize their software spending.
As organizations increasingly rely on software to run their business, proper license management is key to reducing costs and minimizing legal risks. Here are some best practices to ensure proper software licensing:
Following best practices helps you avoid unnecessary expenses due to non-compliant software.
Total Network Inventory (TNI) is a comprehensive automated solution that simplifies software compliance auditing, management, and reporting on corporate networks.
Key features:
TNI uses network scanning to conduct a comprehensive license audit across all computers in a company, including local and remote resources. The program automatically collects information about all of the installed programs, matching installations with purchased licenses stored in its centralized repository. Total Network Inventory does not require the preliminary installation of agents. To scan the local network, simply specify the password of the local administrator or domain administrator.
TNI stores all of the necessary information in a central database: license keys, license purchase and expiration dates, and their cost as well as financial documentation such as invoices, receipts, and license agreements. This is necessary for unified management, tracking and distribution of licenses, and tracking expiration dates and renewals.
TNI uses agentless network scanning. Individual devices, IP ranges, or entire Active Directory domains can be scanned automatically according to the scheduled tasks. No more manual collection of software inventory data on computers.
TNI enables administrators to set policies restricting unauthorized installation privileges to designated technical users only. Combined with automated audits, this ensures continual compliance enforcement across global enterprise networks.
With Total Network Inventory, you can schedule software audits. You can choose the day and time to run a single task or schedule audits to run on a regular basis. By scheduling tasks during off-peak hours, you can ensure that an audit job will not interfere with your regular workload.
Document all changes in hardware and software. Total Network Inventory records newly installed, updated and removed packages and hardware components, logs the amount of available disk space, and collects other data for the change log.
TNI helps you create customizable reports during each system audit job. Build comprehensive reports with hundreds of fields as well as share, print, or export reports with ease!
Total Network Inventory Professional is perfect for organizing software asset management in corporate networks. The intuitive graphical interface will help you quickly deploy the program in a network of any size in a short time, and flexible tariff plans enable you to choose the most suitable option for your company. Download the 30-day trial version and see for yourself!
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