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Numara Asset Management PlatformThe Power of One
Empowers IT organizations to increase service levels, improve performance, and reduce costs by automating IT asset management
Product Overview
Numara Asset Management Platform
The Power of OneThe Numara® Asset Management Platform (NAMP) empowers
IT organizations to increase service levels, improve performance,
and reduce costs by automating IT asset management.
Up to 80% of the lifetime cost of
a computer can be attributed to
poorly managed hardware and
software configurations, yet IT
asset management can be time-
consuming and labor-intensive.
Built from the ground up as a
modular yet integrated system,
NAMP is a comprehensive suite
of solutions that reduces the
expense, risk, and complexity
typically associated with asset
management. A single unified
platform eliminates the need
for expensive combinations
of segregated products, which
create knowledge gaps and
cannot provide correlated
information. Easy to implement,
easy-to-use, and easy to scale,
NAMP delivers value immediately
and gives you the flexibility you need to adapt quickly and cost-
efficiently to evolving business needs.
Integrated snap-in products leverage a consistent agent, console,
and reporting system to simplify management of the complete
asset lifecycle. NAMP effectively addresses a diverse set of
IT asset management challenges, such as hardware/software
configuration management, software deployment and software
license management, OS deployment, security vulnerability
remediation, compliance management, patch deployment, and
power management.
Numara Inventory Manager
Understanding the hardware and software assets installed
throughout your organization can be a laborious and resource-
intensive process. Numara Inventory Manager streamlines IT
inventory management to increase productivity, speed up problem
resolution, and optimize software costs. Inventory Manager
allows you to easily manage and automate critical tasks, such as
software license compliance, configuration management, and
upgrade/migration planning.
Numara Inventory Manager provides detailed hardware and
software inventories for Windows, MacOS and Linux systems, as
well as other network endpoints. A comprehensive auto discovery
process delivers detailed configuration
information via agent-less network
scanning or through intelligent agent
deployment.
Automatic Device Discovery
Quickly identify all desktops,
laptops, mobile devices, or network
endpoints, and easily access a
visual representation of the network
topology.
Software Inventory
Eliminate wasted expenses by ensuring
that installed software is properly licensed, up-to-date, and in
compliance with company and industry standards. Customized
searches streamline upgrade/migration planning.
Hardware Inventory
Maintain control with a comprehensive inventory of hardware
assets across the entire organization.
Application Self-Healing
Improve service levels and reduce help desk calls by proactively
detecting and automatically correcting unintentional application,
file, and configuration changes.
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Hardware Inventory - Network Adapter Configuration
Benefits
A single integrated console and database
Agent and agentless inventory discovery
Flexible and dynamic business rules engine
Scalable architecture
Comprehensive reports and dashboards
Supports Windows®, Linux®, MAC® and VMware®
Numara Asset Management Platform
Manage Prohibited Applications
Reduce risk by controlling which applications or processes can be
run on specific devices and blocking unauthorized applications.
Monitor Application Usage
Maintain visibility of all installed software, easily reconcile
purchased software to installed software, and quickly determine
usage of installed software whether a device is online or offline.
Custom Inventory
Address business-specific needs through custom inventory
capabilities and administrator-specified data fields.
Inventory and Configuration History
Manage changes to hardware or software configurations, enforce
change control policies, and maintain detailed inventory history.
Security Inventory
Easily collect specific data on key security settings, including
installed anti-virus, update status, or shared resources.
Printer Inventory
Discover and manage network devices such as printers and
routers.
Numara Deployment ManagerFrequent software upgrades and updates drive up costs and
increase the complexity of maintaining and controlling systems.
Numara Deployment Manager ensures successful, cost-effective
software and OS deployment, even to large and distributed user
populations. You’ll improve performance, security and reliability
across the organization by automating software deployment
processes, smoothly upgrading users to authorized configurations,
and eliminating obsolete, unauthorized, or redundant software.
Software Packaging
Streamline software deployment to large numbers of devices with
an integrated software packaging product. Automatically provide
ready-to-deploy packages of various types.
Microsoft Installer (MSI) Support
Leverage MSI technology with easy access to all installation
options, including support for Microsoft® and administrative
installations.
Snapshot Packager
Build before and after system snapshots to accelerate deployment.
RPM Packager
Support Linux-based RPM packaging, with easy access to all
installation options.
Custom Packager
Minimize the hassle of managing unique or “home-grown”
software applications by building a custom package with any set
of files.
Automated Configuration Deployment
Simplify configuration by specifying targeted software and OS
deployments with dynamic group definitions.
Advanced Scheduling
Enhance software deployment through a comprehensive
scheduler for each step in the software distribution process.
Automatic Package Rollback
Automatically rollback or uninstall software packages in the event
of errors to reduce workload.
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NAMP Home Page - Dashboard provides general information and shortcuts for functionality
Numara Asset Management Platform
Bandwidth Throttling
Minimize disruption during deployment through close
management of allocated bandwidth.
Checkpoint Restart
Guarantee secure transfer even in the event of network
interruption during deployment.
Wake-on-LAN
Automatically wake-up offline devices and deploy the appropriate
software.
Multicast Delivery
Leverage the power of parallel software distribution to an
unlimited number of client systems while maintaining server and
network resource requirements and bandwidth consumption.
Support for Large Packages
Deploy individual software packages up to 4 Gigabytes without
impacting day-to-day business.
OS Deployment
Take control of software distribution and easily deploy Microsoft
Operating Systems.
Numara Remote ManagerLack of easy access to users’ computers makes resolving
problems time consuming and expensive. Numara Remote
Manager improves service levels, increases productivity, and
lowers costs. As an administrator,
you can remotely view and control
computers, and work with users
to quickly resolve issues without
leaving your workplace.
Remote Manager provides support
for authenticated sessions with
encrypted communication, video
driver independence, target device
restart, file transfer capability, and
clipboard management.
Process Integration
Direct Access functionality is integrated into the NAMP
administration console to simplify and speed up help desk and
configuration management tasks. Remote desktop management
capabilities also allow remote and silent access to the host’s
system and management tools.
Numara Patch ManagerDespite increasing security concerns, IT organizations still struggle
to enact effective patch management processes, and over 90%
of security attacks target known vulnerabilities that have already
been patched. Numara Patch Manager simultaneously reduces
security risk, unplanned downtime and the IT hassle associated
with patch management. By quickly identifying missing patches
and automatically delivering critical fixes to devices across the
entire organization, you can rest assured your applications and
Window OS are reliable and secure.
Robust Patch Processes
Optimize the patch/remediation process by tailoring methods to
fit operational needs. Establish baseline patching for all devices;
deploy special or emergency patches to a group of machines
outside of the normal patch cycle; or completely automate the
patch management process.
Effective Patch Deployment
Simplify patch deployment in complex distributed environments
through an agent-based architecture.
Flexible Reboot Options
Ensure a ’Safe Reboot’ experience for both administrators
and end-users with myriad flexible options, from immediately
following patch installation to administrator-specified times.
Multiple Vendor Support
Reduce development and testing requirements with a pre-tested
patch knowledge base that supports both Microsoft products and
popular applications from other vendors.
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Numara Asset Management Platform
Numara Vulnerability ManagerMitigating vulnerabilities to protect the business and prevent
service interruptions has become both increasingly critical and
increasingly complex. Easily reduce IT asset vulnerability and
support costs with Numara Vulnerability Manager optimizes the
patch management process by proactively preventing unplanned
service interruptions before they occur. This NAMP product
enables you to quickly scan all network assets, identify vulnerable
or non-secure configurations, and automatically remediate those
vulnerabilities.
Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis
Scan any device with an IP address to reveal internal and
external vulnerabilities.
Balanced Approach to Managing Vulnerabilities
Make better decisions, avoid critical situations, and prioritize
remediation efforts by precisely determining the impact of each
vulnerability in its network-specific context with intelligence based
on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS v2).
Flexible Vulnerability Scanning
Simplify vulnerability scanning by centrally managing scanners
across complex multi-site networks, and easily deploy multiple
scanners across many geographical locations or network
topologies.
Effective Mitigation and Timely Vulnerability Remediation
Mitigate risk by reducing the exposure window of vulnerabilities,
identifying high-risk vulnerabilities, and quickly remediating
vulnerabilities in a consistent and scalable fashion.
Verifying Remediation
Ensure that vulnerabilities have been properly remediated using
comprehensive dashboard and reporting tools.
Numara Power Manager Wasted energy is wasted money. Numara Power Manager
improves energy efficiency to help organizations recoup the 40%
of IT spend lost when devices are idle.
Deploy a pragmatic Green IT approach and analyze energy
consumption trends by tracking workstations power states,
determining associated costs, and measuring efficiency of power
management policies.
Dynamic agent technology allows you to define, implement,
and enforce power management policies on devices across the
network without impacting productivity. Highly granular power
management policies can be defined based upon specific types/
classes of devices, user populations, physical location of devices,
day or time of the week, or the current state of a device.
Numara Compliance ManagerNon-compliant assets can create costly problems, yet enforcing
compliance policies, and assessing assets is difficult and time-
consuming. Numara Compliance Manager helps organizations
quickly ensure compliance of IT assets with relevant regulatory
standards, internal corporate policies, and industry best practices.
Custom rule/template capabilities allow you to adapt standards
to your organization or easily create new compliance templates,
based upon unique corporate requirements. Following
compliance assessments, non-compliant assets can be easily
identified and automatically grouped for immediate remediation.
Numara Device Manager
Data leakage or privacy breaches can cripple an organization.
Numara Device Manager protects your business by minimizing
the risks associated with unauthorized use of prohibited
devices, such as USB drives
or external hard drives.
The easy-to-use device
management solution
ensures compliance and
reduces manual effort by
allowing you to quickly define
policies or schedules that
specify what devices are
explicitly enabled
or disabled.
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Vulnerability Management - Vulnerability Groups
Reports & DashboardsDrowning in reports? Creating summaries and dashboards
can reduce the time available for supporting the business.
The Numara Asset Management Platform includes an integrated
reporting solution that gives you the critical time and visibility to
focus on the important issues. A wealth of pre-defined reports and
executive dashboards, combined with flexible customization options,
makes reporting on asset management easy and hassle-free.
About Numara SoftwareWith more than 55,000 customer sites worldwide, Numara
Software is a global leader in delivering practical, flexible solutions
that allow IT organizations to improve service to their end-users.
Our integrated IT service management and IT asset management
software platforms enable organizations to efficiently automate a
wide variety of IT related tasks and processes using interoperable
solutions from a single, proven vendor.
Widely known for our dedicated focus on ease of use and
affordability for our customers, our IT solutions deliver fast
time-to-value, increased control, and reduced risk for small
businesses to large companies. For more information, visit:
www.numarasoftware.com.
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Numara Asset Management Platform
Patch Management – Missing Patches by Severity
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