Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is tool kit for assessment of the existing IT infrastructure of the organization and determination of the technologies corresponding to her requirements.

Description

The Toolkit Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) tools are used for inspection of IT infrastructure of the organization, without use of programs agents. The product helps to simplify and optimize planning of inspection according to different scenarios by means of the automated collecting of necessary data on the scale of all network of the organization, their assessment.

Specific Features

The control facility of use of software entering the version of MAP Toolkit 6.0 provides report generation on servers Microsoft, including Windows Server SharePoint Server Exchange Server, SQL Server and System Center Configuration Manager. Reports on results of inventory of servers and identification set on them to software allow to perform monitoring of use of licenses and to considerably simplify process of their adding. Reports on the results of inspection created by the Software Usage Tracker utility contain detailed information for the analysis of trends of use of software and planning of acquisition of licenses taking into account future requirements of the organization. It is possible to use these reports for clarification of need for server licenses (Server License) and client licenses (Client Access License, CAL) and simplifications of inventory for the purpose of a reporting preparation according to the licenses CAL.

Advantages

• Fast low-cost inventory without use of programs agents, with a possibility of expansion of its volume.
• The integrated automated tools for planning of transition from desktop computers to servers.
• Support of planning on a wide number of software products for assessment of a possibility of migration and level of readiness for it and formation of the relevant proposals.
• Report generation and offers on Windows 7 OS, Microsoft Office 2010 software package and server Windows Server 2008 R2 OS.
• Support of assessment of consolidation and virtualization of servers for identification of underutilized resources and determination of "candidates" for virtualization.
• Ensuring inventory and detection of SQL Server DBMS for the purpose of consolidation.

Reduction of time and expenses on administration of software, control of servers and CAL licenses.

Features

The MAP Toolkit tools provide carrying out without use of programs agents of reliable inventory of all network of the organization irrespective of its size.

Inventory in heterogeneous server environment

Carrying out inventory using MAP Toolkit allows to find out what IT infrastructure of the organization consists of. MAP Toolkit provides network inventory of IT assets in the remote mode without use of agents. As a result heterogeneous server environments which consist of the Windows Server and Linux operating systems, including the servers functioning in the virtualized environment come to light. Besides, the version of the MAP Toolkit 6.0 tools automates detection of stacks of LAMP set in the Linux distribution kits.

Tracking of use of software

The MAP Toolkit 6.0 tools include new means for monitoring and drawing up reports on use of basic server products of Microsoft: Windows Server SharePoint Server Exchange Server SQL Server and System Center Configuration Manager. Operational reports are available to receiving exact estimated data about the current use of software and the retrospective report about client accesses to the server at any time. Support of formation of these reports reduces time and expenses on management of server and client licenses.

Report generation about the level of readiness for migration on software of Microsoft

The MAP Toolkit tools reveal the operating systems installed in the organization. It provides carrying out the detailed analysis of compatibility of hardware and devices and formation of recommendations about migration on the main software products Microsoft, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Office 2010. The MAP Toolkit tools also detect DBMS SQL Server and its copies for the purpose of consolidation.

Reports on consolidation of servers

MAP Toolkit carries out detailed inventory of servers of the organization and the assessment of possible positive effect from their consolidation as a part of smaller number of physical servers using Hyper-V (the system of virtualization on the basis of a hypervisor).

For collection of information about central processors, RAM, hard drives and network use of computers for the set period use of the master of a metrics of performance – Performance Metrics Wizard is possible.

Restriction of the sphere of use of reports

Information which is contained in reports on use of software serves as a basis for the analysis of application of the licenses CAL, but not as the "unconditional" analytical report. Owing to existence of different approaches to deployment and inventory of different software products application of the Software Usage Tracker utility cannot be a guarantee of obtaining exact data on the server software and cases of access to it in all cases. These reports form only for your data, and they should not be used as the only source of information which is required for determination of level of compliance to conditions of licenses.

Cost and right of its use

The MAP Toolkit tool kit is available free of charge to loading from the specialized website of vendor.