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Asset Explorer

Learn more about Nlyte Discovery and IT asset management, enterprise software that collects information about the devices on your network, allowing you to control and manage them.

Trusted Source of Truth

You can’t manage and protect what you don’t know you have. Asset Explorer is a comprehensive enterprise software solution that automatically collects detailed information about every device connected to the network. The solution includes all the tools and technology to visualize the results of the discovered inventory of hardware, its configuration attributes, services/processes, and application.

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Automated discovery of hardware and software
NextGen agentless discovery identifies and catalogs everything attached to your network from power and facilities, compute, laptop/desktop, and IoT assets establishing a Technology Asset Baseline.

Detailed inventory of all asset attributes
Protocol, platform, and vendor agnostic Nlyte Asset Explorer takes inventory of all hardware and software it scans.

Reconciliation across IT and business systems
Detailed information is shared with Nlyte Asset Optimizer, as well as ITSM, BI, HR, and ERP systems for accurate tracking of usage, support, and maintenance overhead.

Risk Mitigation
Discover unknown hardware and software that could be a potential risk, validate change management processes are being met, who is interacting with the assets, and provide the needed data for audits and delta change reporting.

Overview

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Product Overview

Asset Explorer delivers the definitive source of truth for all other IT and business systems.  Being agentless and protocol agnostic, Nlyte’s NextGen Asset Explorer automatically discovers and inventories everything running on the network. With the ability to collect hundreds of data points per asset the Business Intelligence engine delivers rich information for finance, compliance, security, and IT applications.

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The responsibility for asset management falls across many roles in the organization, CFO finance and procurement teams, CSO security and risk management teams, CIO IT Operations and Architect teams, even HR.  See how Nlyte’s NexGen Asset Explorer helps in all of these disciplines.

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Webinar

Learn how Nlyte’s NextGen Asset Explorer is addressing challenges facing every organization including tracking rampant distribution of applications, tools, and data sets. Hear how you can improve security and accountability, disaster recovery, and software asset management.

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Use Cases for Asset Explorer

Financial Reconciliation / Cost Management
  • License, support, maintenance cost management
  • Asset database v/s fixed asset system
  • Validate lifecycle disposition (installed, EOL, ghost)
  • Tool consolidation
Compliance / Security / Risk Mitigation
  • Asset Integrity, validate all access/changes
  • Security, authorized/unauthorized, patch validation
  • Risk assessment
  • Audit trail, Change Management validation
  • Accountability – GDPR, HIPPA, SOX, PCI, ISO
IT Operations / Automation / SLA Improvement
  • Simplify and automate asset data collection, inventory and Life Cycle Management
  • Assist Service Desk SLA and improve troubleshooting accuracy with current validated asset location and configuration
  • Improve disaster recovery RTO with accurate asset inventory and configurations at time of failure
  • Achieve a self-aware data center with auto asset discovery – improves CMDB accuracy
  • Reduce manual activities associated with auditing, reporting, and workflow validation

Connectors

Microsoft SCCM Connector

The Nlyte Asset Explorer purpose-built connector for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) enables IT organizations to perform Discovery, Mapping, and Reporting Reconciliation against the SCCM data base. This connector helps close the gaps with Microsoft’s SCCM tool that include scattered security controls, management server overhead, and inefficient reporting engines and dashboards.

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Nlyte Asset Explorer Solutions

Technology Asset Management (TAM/ITAM)

Extending IT Asset Management to include IoT devices such as CCTV, medical equipment, and industrial equipment. Track and manage all things connected to the network. Discover and identify detailed information of devices, their configuration, and usage.

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Asset Integrity Monitoring (AIM)

Ensure the integrity of physical assets by providing a baseline of all assets, power systems and processes in your data center or colocation facilities. It improves management and strengthens the chain-of-custody of all data center assets from procurement through decommissioning.

General Data Protection Regulation GDPR

Nlyte’s Data Center Infrastructure Management Suite improves compliance by providing the ability to track within the physical infrastructure where the data resides, whether it is encrypted and by what method, the means in which the data is transported, and who has interacted with the data.

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Nlyte Data Center Service Management (DCSM)

Unify ITIL process management, ITSM systems, and DCIM together for a unified workflow process improving automation, efficiency of disaggregated teams, and lowering operational costs across the entire physical compute infrastructure.