Thank you for your message. We will take these items into consideration for our next updates.
Anhle wrote:Collection/discovery on the Unix side
Unix computers can be scanned, though information returned is currently limited. For more info on scanning Unix machines, please refer to page 62 of
our online documentation.
Anhle wrote:Collection of hardware details, down to serial numbers of disks and memory sticks
Hardware information is already gathered and can be found in several tables within the report builder. Disk drive serial numbers can be found in the “Volumeserialnumber” field of tblDiskdrives. An example report is shown below.
Quote:Select tblComputers.Computername, tblComputers.ComputerUnique,
tblComputers.Domain, tblDiskdrives.Caption, tblDiskdrives.Description,
tblDiskdrives.FileSystem, tblDiskdrives.Freespace, tblDiskdrives.Size,
tblDiskdrives.Volumename, tblDiskdrives.Volumeserialnumber,
tblDiskdrives.Lastchanged
From tblComputers Inner Join
tblDiskdrives On tblComputers.Computername = tblDiskdrives.Computername
Order By tblComputers.ComputerUnique
Anhle wrote:No expiration of records – computers that remain “offline” for a long period prompt for admin action – e.g. “retired”, scrapped, etc
You can automatically have computers set to non-active that have not been seen in a while. This is done through the cleanup actions found in your configuration console under Scanning Servers\Your Server\Options\Scanning & Cleanup Options.
Anhle wrote:History of changes made to systems
Hardware and software changes are already tracked and can be found in tables ending in “hist” within the report builder or on the “Changes by type” page within the web console.
