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CHEP 2003, San Diego, March 24-28 Jens Kreutzkamp (DESY): Experience with an IT Asset Management System Experience with an IT Asset Management System Lars Hagge, Jens Kreutzkamp (DESY - IPP)Erwin Deffur, Andreas Gellrich, Bj?rn Schulz (DESY - IT) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg  CHEP 2003 Agenda Project Overview Architecture Results Experience Outlook Agenda Project Overview Architecture Results Experience Outlook Why Asset Management? Mission Goals software license management matching used and available licenses(Windows computers) procurement of standard resources eg. PCs, monitors, components,... common central repository for IT devices Project Overview Agenda Project Overview Architecture Results Experience Outlook Logical Architecture Physical Architecture Agenda Project Overview Architecture Results Experience Outlook Results Release 1 (July ′02) license management complete inventory of IT equipment initial scan of registered PCs e-Procurement ongoing test, currently ~10% of DESYs requests Release 2 (March ′03) improved scanning mechanism scanners controlled by service extended reporting introduction of Web-Reporting Installation Report Installation overview per user group Discover version variety e.g. three different MS Project versions in use might cause data exchange problems identification of PCs which needs to be migrated Analysis of SW Installations 1.5 operating systems/PC Windows NT and DOS 0.2 virus scanners/PC might cause security problems some versions are not detected License Usage Comparison of used and available licenses Raw data basis: initial scan contains external PCs (~290), policy not fully clear transfer of license points to be implemented e.g. Windows XP-licenses are also valid for NT Indicator for over- or underlicensing XP Compliance Recommendation for Windows XP 300 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 1.5 GB free disk space ~16% of the computers are incompliant ~ 370 PCs need to be replaced total estimated HW cost ~300k$ E-Procurem