ZENMetrics™ - Advanced Infrastructure Auditing

ZENMetrics™ is a highly advanced, agentless technology designed to gather the most accurate infrastructure data, in the shortest possible time and with the least impact on the IP network.

Straightforward and elegant in design and execution, ZENmetrics™ is the ideal tool for ongoing IT assessments; it is easy to use, incredibly fast and will rapidly integrate with investments already made in help desk and support products.

All devices connected to an IP network can be discovered and analysed including servers, client, peripheral and network hardware in addition to all of their software, firmware and configuration settings. We provide a powerful decision support technology for use by IT and business professionals; its ease of use and light touch make it an unrivalled product.

The fundamental principle behind the design and ongoing development of ZENmetrics™ is data quality; that nothing short of totally accurate data, on-demand is acceptable. We believe that anything less seriously compromises and undermines every subsequent decision and leads to increased costs, delays and unnecessary risk.

In short, we provide the quintessential data that drives better informed decisions; a fundamental capability for the real-time, agile and high-pressure business environment.It is the “spy-in-the-sky” for your IP networks. We excel at developing the technology to gather more data, more quickly, more accurately and with less network impact than any alternative available.

ZENmetrics™ will discover all types of IP device from servers to desktops, printers to telephones, cash registers to network devices. We can find, identify and subtly interrogate every device and retrieve the data you require; and we can do this without deploying any software on your network or disrupting your network operations in any way. Our unique and peerless data retrieval techniques are specifically designed to do no harm and cause no problems.

Product Overview

ZENmetrics™ has been designed to be both very easy-to-use in its own right and simple to integrate with other applications and technologies. Installation takes minutes and the first scan can be run within 30 seconds.

As a standalone tool it consists of three elements:

• The graphical user interface provides all of the scan management functions: scan scoping (the name and address range for the scan), scan definition (the classes of data to be returned) and scan scheduling.
  
• The scanning engine performs the requested tasks collecting the data required from across the specified address range provided it has been given the credentials necessary to access the data.
  
  
• The third element is the data.  By default we write the data to simple text files; this method does not hinder the speed of the engine and provides a common data standard.  The data is easily accessed and can then be made available to any database, third party application or bespoke software; a process that can be fully automated and tailored to your exacting requirements.

The modular nature of our technology is entirely intentional; our data gathering engine can be integrated with virtually any other software and thereby provides exceptional data gathering capability to existing investments. Additionally, we are able to provide specialised data gathering capabilities by means of ancillary discovery engines rather than risk compromising performance endeavouring to channel everything through a single discovery component.

What can I use it for?

ZENmetrics™ is a highly sophisticated tool that will help and support decision-making and deployment on many aspects of infrastructure. The many ways in which the data we gather can be used include:

• Fast electronic asset auditing
• Budgeting optimisation and planning
• Outsource preparation
• Network survey prior to VOIP deployment
• Infrastructure due diligence for service providers, mergers, acquisitions & disposals
• Migration planning
• Progress monitoring during hardware and/or software project delivery
• Security auditing & network health-check
• Lease and hardware maintenance contract management
• Populating and verifying a configuration management database (CMDB)
• Policing moves, asset deployments and changes
• Disk capacity management
• Enhancing problem & incident management capabilities >
• Scanning for specific files e.g. mp3, jpg, mpg
• The identification of specific hardware, software or data components on request
• The upgrade of software or services
• Conducting software license audits to assist with FAST accreditation & compliance

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