This Asset Management System helps in creating and managing a data repository of the inventory pertaining to the hardware and software of IT resources in an organisation. The IT inventory list basically consists of computers, monitors, software, network devices, printers, plotters, scanners, cartridges, etc. Asset Management System is a FOSS based application, which has two major components, an application for automatically capturing the inventory data pertaining to the installed hardware and software of a computer and its associated peripherals, and second component named which helps in the management of these inventories. The Second module makes use of the data captured by the First and the financial and commercial data pertaining to the inventory. The financial details include data on purchase order, invoice, warranty, AMC and the commercial details include data on suppliers, contacts, contracts etc. The financial and commercial data have to be entered manually into the Second Module. The data captured could be imported into the Second Module; also manual entry of inventory data is possible in the Software.

The main features of Asset Management System are

Inventory of the computers with management of the devices connections and TCO management

Inventory of the monitors with management of the connections to the computers Inventory of the network hardware with management of the connections to the devices (IP, Mac addresses, VLANs)

Inventory of printers with management of connections to the computers and management of consumable associated

Inventory of the external devices (scanners, graphical tables) with management of the connections to the computers

Inventory if the software with license and expiration dates management
Assignment of the hardware by geographic area (room, floor)

Commercial and financial Information management (purchase, guarantee and extension, damping)

History of the modifications on the elements of the inventory