Is your company prepared if the Business Software Alliance (BSA) knocked on
your door? Many companies are unprepared for the process and do not track
what they own vs. what is installed on their systems. This results in
heavy fines that may not be warranted but are forced upon due to not having a
system of showing compliance to the BSA. Providing compliance reports to
the BSA not only includes your currently deployed systems, but you must also
prove your company has taken steps to ensure your processes and policies catch
future installations. Systems Audit Manager (SAM) for Microsoft Systems
Management Server (SMS) is an inexpensive auditing tool to aid your company in
software auditing.
Overview
Systems Audit Manager provides a software auditing solution based on
inventory data hosted by Microsoft SMS.
SAM integrates with the SMS database and runs
without having to be installed on the client.
SAM dynamically uses data collected by SMS to
populate software audits.
The SMS database is not modified in any way so SAM can be installed or
removed at any time without effecting your current SMS servers and clients.
Features
Integrates seamlessly with SMS 2.0 or above
Allows grouping of similar products or files together into a single report
Assign license counts to reports per SMS sites
Enterprise wide auditing or audit on a per SMS site basis
Sorting of data by compliance
Excel exporting of data
Scheduling of audits for lowest server impact
Data is viewable by any Internet Explorer 5 or above browser
System requirements
Internet Information Services (IIS) 4.0 or later
Sql Server 7.0 or later
Internet Explorer 5.01 or later (reporting client console)
