IT Asset Management for Admins: Save Time, Cut Costs & Boost Security

Elevate your IT operations with the innovative IT Asset Management functionality in the Auto Shutdown Manager Management Console. Designed for IT administrators and managers, this solution offers a comprehensive, real-time overview of all critical IT assets using advanced networked IT inventory software and centralized asset tracking.

Key features include:

• Instant Insights: Quickly access data on installed licenses, deployed PC models, driver versions, update dates, and more.
• Automated Efficiency: Asset data is automatically gathered from client systems and updated on the server, ensuring your information is always current.
• Streamlined IT Management: Optimize operations, reduce downtime, and boost productivity with powerful asset tracking.

Take control of your IT environment and experience efficient, up-to-date asset management with Auto Shutdown Manager.

A Major New Benefit: Revolutionizing IT Asset Management

The latest enhancement in Auto Shutdown Manager minimizes the need for manual system checks. With integrated centralized asset tracking, you can say goodbye to routine, on-site examinations of software and patch versions. Instead, enjoy effortless updates to asset registers—turning what was once a chore into a time-saving advantage.

Included with Auto Shutdown Manager Version 5, this game-changing feature requires no additional license upgrades for current customers, delivering immediate value and transforming IT management for the better.

See a short video tutorial

You can switch between viewing all, physical or virtual assets.

 Clicking on any individual asset category will list all the clients with that asset.

You can also drill-down into client details; clicking on any category, for example Microsoft Windows Server 2016, will list all clients with that OS installed:

Full Reports

Full reports deliver more specific data of any selected asset category. For example, the full report for Operating Systems shows how many licenses of each OS are installed and lists all the different builds as well as versions:

Asset details of individual clients

In a similar way to selecting an asset you also can also pick an individual client and see all the available asset details for that system. To do so, simply navigate to Client Overview, right click on a client of interest and select Client Assets:

This opens a new dialog with all available assets for this client:

In the Software tab, you can search for any software by name, version or vendor.:

You can also find components, such as hot-fixes. Equally importantly, another useful feature is to show all clients where a specific software version or an important hot-fix is missing:

Control what you see

IT Asset Management can be turned on or off for any individual policy group or to all groups. Simply navigate to Groups and Settings -> Administration:

Assets supported

Currently, the reports contain basic information of the following assets:

• BIOSes ($am.bios) incl. TPM chip
• Computer Models ($am.pcmodel)
• Computer Types (Desktops, Mobile, Servers, Workstations,…) ($am.pcmodel.Type)
• CPUs ($am.cpu)
• Hard drives ($am.nic)
• Installed Software ($am.soft)
• Monitors ($am.monitor)
• Motherboards ($am.mb)
• Network Interface Controllers ($am.nic)
• Operating Systems ($am.os)
• Printers ($am.printer)
• Video Controllers ($am.vc)

Further features

Clients can be found by specifying custom asset parameters.

For example, suppose you wished to find all network drivers older than 10 years. You can easily do this by entering a search filter starting with $am., (standing for IT Asset Management) followed by an asset category, for example NIC (network interface controller) followed by the asset detail, for example "DriverDate":

Example Windows 11 TPM:
for the upcoming Windows 11, find all clients that do offer the required TPM (Trusted Platform Module) support.
To find out, navigate to "Client Overview" and enter the following filter: $am.bios.TPM_Exists = yes or $am.bios.TPM_specVersion = [2-9]*
All clients that support TPM will be shown. With $am.bios.TPM_Exists = no , all clients that do not support TPM will be shown.
Open the client asset details to get more details such as if TPM is enabled, the TPM version, the supported TPM Spec version and more.

Requirements:

An installed MS SQL database is required. We recommend MS SQL 2012 (Express) or newer. For
simple step-by-step instructions, see the Auto Shutdown Manager manual.

Auto Shutdown Manager version 5.7.3.24 or later must be installed on both the clients and the server.