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Services Summary
DNA (Documentation Network Application) audits provide service organisations with a detailed insight into the deployed IT infrastructure of their customers. Network audits using DNA deliver the essential information required for network documentation, network planning, network operations, network security as well as business applications.
Features
- Network Documentation Services:
- Network discovery, including IP network devices, end-stations, network topology
- Data evaluation from different asset management aspects
- Network inventory report and network topology visualisation tools facilitate data analysis
- Change tracking, history storage and analysis
- Network Planning Services:
- Overview: deployed routers, switches, PCs, servers, printers, IP phones, hardware and software, device vendors
- Network device details: device name, vendor, type, serial number, slot, port, location, number and type of installed modules, free/used slots and ports
- PC and server details: device name, vendor, model, serial number, OS, user, CPU, storage, hard disk, software, hot fixes, patches
- Printer details: model, serial number, toner/ink, number of printed pages
- Software and services details: all software for all operating systems, all services for all OS, all software, updates/hotfixes, services and processes for Microsoft devices, all software and services for Unix and Linux devices, MS Domains and MS Domain Services
- Network topology details: connection type, data rate, spanning-tree, start/endpoint, trunk/host, subnet, vendor-specific protocols, e.g. Cisco CDP, HSRP, Nortel SONMP
- Network Operations and Security Services:
- Number of devices detected but not managed
- Number of Microsoft devices managed, e.g. processed via WMI, versus the number of Microsoft devices un-managed, e.g. NetBIOS only
- Switch Port Population, e.g. number of trunk ports, host ports, un-resolved ports
- IP address statistics, e.g. number of subnets, IP addresses, un-resolved IP addresses
- Switch port usage statistics, e.g. used/unused ports per switch
- Subnet population, e.g. statistics on the subnets and the number of used/unused addresses
- Port details, e.g. statistics on the traffic and errors per port
Benefits
- Streamline IT processes and staff productivity:
- Improve network planning and operations efficiency by rapidly identifying the physical characteristics and location of network devices, even un-managed, unknown or hidden
- Deliver basic device consolidation data
- Reduce IT TCO:
- Ensure accurate IT budgeting/charging and ordering thanks to actual and thorough network inventory
- Get an accurate view of deployed network infrastructure and workstations, as opposed to the one shown on paper or originally planned
- Dramatically reduce TCO by automating the manual task of compiling and keeping up to date your network inventory
- Decrease the licensing and maintenance yearly fees
- Improve security by locating hidden and pirate devices, un-authorised users or addresses, faulty network configurations, network congestion
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