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SameBy Team 17Supernodal Asset Management Environment

Same is… A new approach to IT Asset Management

inventory applications A way to increase the efficiency of your IT

department, and therefore your entire company Able to collect hardware and software

information through the network automatically, and without disturbing anyone

Our idea of how inventory management should work

Inventory management is considered one of the most important aspects of maintaining an efficient Information Technology Department.

It provides IT staff with the answers to questions like:

What software is used the most by our users? Which computers need replaced the soonest?

Traditionally, inventory management applications are either designed for small businesses or large businesses, not both.

Small business-oriented programs… Scan a network, pulling information from

each computer they find one by one. Can work seamlessly on all operating

systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) Require nothing but a server to work

from and a network to scan Take far too long to scan a large network

To scan the University of Toledo would take a month!

Large business-oriented programs… Usually need a separate program, often called

an ‘agent’, to be installed on every computer Often require substantial (and extremely

costly) infrastructure systems be in place to work right

Mostly only support Windows, because of the requirements mentioned earlier

Run lightning fast because the agent does all the work, and can often help manage computers too

What makes Same different? Same is a hybrid of the small business and

large business methods. It uses a networking concept known as

‘Supernodes’ to distribute the work evenly, greatly speeding up the whole scanning process

Supernodes are computers on a network that can perform tasks for a server, so it can focus on other jobs

Same can scale to meet the needs of any company

Same is a suite of three applications

A database, to store collected data and act as a scanner switchboard

A set of scanners, which work as a team to quickly gather information

A web interface, for reporting and scanner administration

Website

Scanners

Database

• Displays Data

• Configures• Collect Data

• Work Together

• Stores Data• Switchboard

An overview of Same’s web-based interface

Dashboard

Provides Administrator and Technician level users of Same a quick view of scanner status, as well as access to newly scanned computers and saved reports

Inventory

Displays all the information the database has to offer about the computers found on the network.

Provides an easy to digest format for important data.

Reports

A user friendly way of creating customized views of the data collected by Same. Users choose which columns to display in what order, and can set filters to narrow results.

Configure

Accessible only to the Administrator level users.

Add new users, edit existing ones, authorize and set up scan jobs and quickly access to the interface’s usage logs.

Step-by-step with the Same scanner program

The Same scanner Written using the Ruby programming

language Unlike most programming languages, Ruby programs can

be run on any operating system without making any changes to the code

Designed to run in the background as a service on the Supernode it operates from, so users won’t even realize it’s there

Uses the Same database to distribute the workload evenly across all scanners

The Same scanner Uses a special secure

algorithm to generate the database credentials to use

Checks in with the server, looking for any outstanding scan requests to do

Works through the list of IP addresses given in the scan request, trying each address to see if a computer is currently using it

Attempts to connect to each computer using the username and password listed as part of the scan request

Gathers all the information it can on the computers it connects to

Sends the results of the scan to the database for storage and later review

Team 17 thanks you for your interest!

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