Análise de ferramentas de gerenciamento de redes focada em controle de inventário

Abstract

The growth of infrastructure in companies directly impacted the network management process with the constant emergence of new equipment and applications. With this growth, problems in Inventory Control arise, such as the manual storing of inventory devices and applications. Inventory control is directly linked to a company’s decision making, via audit resources, to generate reports on devices on the network and on issues of strategy and infrastructure planning, such as the exchange and purchase of new equipment. Managing the network, identifying equipment and creating maps, assists in all the processes that involve the network management, such as fault management, configuration and security. In view of the appliances that carry out this process automatically, research is done on network management appliances with a focus on inventory control, in order to present their different functionalities and show their importance to improve the management process. Therefore, it is necessary to create an environment for analyzing the tools and defining the comparison topics. Thus, this study compares OCS-Inventory, NetXMS and Open-AudIT tools, presented in tables, to reflect the results of the analyzes.