Highlights
The ISI-Snapshot product suite provides rapid, accurate detection, inventory, warehousing, analysis and reporting of Windows, Novell, UNIX, and Linux domain, server and application configuration and utilization data. Optional services include health checks and periodic reporting.

Relying on our proprietary methodology and toolset, ISI-Snapshot automates the difficult, time consuming and error-prone initial steps in performing distributed and open systems infrastructure planning, management, administration and support tasks. 

ISI-Snapshot is programmed with Microsoft’s .NET framework version 2.0 and development tools, including Visual Studio 2005 .NET applications using Microsoft SQL Server 2005. ISI-Snapshot runs from a core database to ensure consistent functionality.

ISI-Snapshot supports international languages for Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems to support foreign languages that require double byte characters, such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Inventory

ISI-Snapshot provides Host, Storage Systems, SAN Switches, and Routers/Switches credentialed inventory of physical and logical assets of the hardware or software. The current version of ISI-Snapshot supports the following host operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows servers: NT, 2000 and 2003 
• UNIX and Linux: HP-UX, HPQ Tru64, IBM AIX, SGI Irix, Red Hat Linux, CentOS Linux, Sun Solaris, SPARC 
• Novell Netware: versions 4.x, 5.x and 6.x 
• Microsoft Windows desktops and workstations: 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP

• IP Phones

SAN Switches

• Cisco MDS 9000
• EMC Connectrix

• Brocade McDATA

Storage Systems

• NetApp Appliances

IP Devices

• Cisco Routers
• Cisco Switches

Discovery
The ISI-Snapshot Discovery module includes functions that provide the capability to scan Internet Protocol (IP) Address ranges and attempts to discover infrastructure objects.  

All devices on customer IP networks are discovered with no security credentials required. Optional SNMP read-only community strings are utilized. Techniques include:

• SNMP 
• RPC Ports (NetBIOS)
• Telnet prompts
• HTTP
• Fingerprinting
• ICMP Echo and TCP Ping

Benefits
Utilizing ISI-Snapshot, technology architects and managers can rapidly create accurate, up-to-the-minute inventories of technical infrastructure configurations; summarize, report, graph and analyze technical infrastructure configuration and utilization data; provide configuration information to aid in analysis of performance issues; target sales opportunities; architect and design potential solutions; provide input to pro-forma business cases and cost justifications; and produce almost impossible-to-get management information to establish credibility with and compel decisions by IT decision makers.   

ISI-Snapshot makes it possible to accurately gather technical infrastructure configuration and utilization data that historically IT executives cannot get from their own staff; information that vendors typically have to invest weeks of manual effort to obtain with results that are often incomplete and inaccurate. ISI-Snapshot enables technology managers, architects, engineers and system administrators to change their focus from technical and operational data gathering and validation to concentrate on analysis, solution design, business cases and service level management. 

Utilization

ISI-Snapshot provides limited performance monitoring to track and generate Performance Counters in the SnapReports.

Host Computers:

• Windows Servers

• UNIX Systems

• Linux Systems

Storage Area Network (SAN) Switches:

• Cisco MDS 9000
• EMC Connectrix

• Brocade McDATA

Storage Systems:

• NetApp Appliances

Server Consolidation

SCON provides cross-platform support with the ability to analyze potential consolidation across operating system versions and the same or different platforms between different server configurations.

File Search

Host Storage Types:

• Internal and Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)

• Storage Area Network (SAN)

Host Operating System Support:

• Windows Servers
• UNIX Systems

• Linux Systems

Storage Systems:

• NetApp Appliances