KACE™ M300 Asset Management Appliance

Pc Inventory
The M300 gives you a clear picture of your PC inventory within minutes of being connected to your network, and can always be counted on to provide a real-time assessment. You will know important information about each asset, including details about its various components and key lifecycle data, enabling you to provide upgrades and reallocations according to your employees' needs. Imagine having this data—which previously involved endless trips to cubicles, disruption of employees' time and unreliable manual tools like spreadsheets—available to you within minutes of installing the M300. It will change the way you spend your time, eliminating the redundant work, headaches and hassles of PC inventory management.

Hardware Inventory
The M300 provides continuous real-time assessment of computers connected to an organization's network, so you know about all your hardware, all the time. Key components such as model, processor, disk, memory and peripheral information are presented in an easy-to-digest layout. You can quickly detect what machines are owned prior to an audit and isolate computers that need to be upgraded, re-used or retired.

Patch Inventory
The M300 monitors installed software and operating system updates on your network. Security vulnerabilities are a common occurrence, and it's often critical that your network machines have certain patches installed. Now with a single click, the M300 lets you observe every machine on your network that is at a given operating system or software patch level, taking the guesswork out of patch management.

Software Inventory
The M300 tracks installed software on your organization's network. Not only can you track approved and unapproved software titles, but with a single mouse click, you can find every machine on the network that has a given software title installed. Whether you are seeking to track down network clogging peer-to-peer software, or making sure that employees have the latest productivity software installed, the M300 makes managing software inventory a breeze.

Agentless Device Discovery
The M300 automatically discovers the devices connected to your network. You can make an assessment about which devices are appropriately connecting to the network and easily track down "rogue" devices that should be disconnected. In contrast to time-consuming manual methods of tracking down network devices, discovery on the M300 happens in minutes.

Dashboard Reports & Alerts
The M300 was designed to deliver the big picture, placing relevant information in front of you in an instant. The dashboard displays alerts so you can stay ahead of potential problems and produces reports so that you can analyze important metrics, such as software installations that are out of compliance. This feature puts your mind at ease by providing a forward looking view of things you can handle before they become problems—think of it as preventive IT management.

Compliance Status Monitoring
The M300 displays an executive summary metric that displays your software license compliance status and reports the number of software installations that exceed the compliance threshold. There isn't a clearer and more transparent communication of software license compliance status.

Required payments Calculator
The M300 required payments calculator determines the amount of money owed to software manufacturers for installations over the license compliance threshold based on historical data. This makes it extremely easy to know exactly what you need to pay to bring your organization back into compliance.

Notification System
The M300 notification system displays recent activity on the network in addition to pending tasks that require completion. These notifications populate the dashboard so you can simply give it a glance to see if anything has changed on the network or whether any outstanding tasks need to be completed.

RSS Feed
The M300 RSS feed allows alerts and notices to be fed into any RSS reader including Microsoft Outlook and My Yahoo! This helps to ensure that you stay aware of important issues even when you aren't logged in to the M300 administrative console.

Administration
IT teams in small organizations face constant fire drills. The M300 is designed so that you can reduce the amount of time your IT staff spends on redundant and tactical work. This makes the structure of the group's work day more efficient and allows you to focus on more interesting and strategic projects. The M300 is designed with small organizations in mind. It's extremely easy-to-use, so it enhances productivity rather than getting in the way.

Web Based Interface
Administrators of all skill levels can use the M300 Web-based interface from the convenience of any desktop, laptop or mobile device—with no formal training required. The intuitive user experience of the M300 minimizes the learning curve of administrators so that PC inventory and software license management work can begin right away.

Maintenance
With the M300, there's no need to worry about maintaining various software, operating system and database components separately. The appliance-based approach allows for one-click updates. Furthermore, the M300 allows for easy backup and restore operations so that you can have built-in insurance against data loss.

Dynamic Search
The M300 allows for keyword and filter-based search so that you can easily find the hardware and software that you need. Keyword search allows you to simply type a search string, while filter-based search allows you to filter inventory based on specific criteria like RAM size, manufacturer and operating system. The M300's dynamic search capabilities are welcome when you need to isolate machines to be upgraded or replaced.

Fully Integrated
The M300 is fully integrated. This means that there are no hardware or software prerequisites to worry about. Simply plug it in and enjoy the benefit of rapid deployment as you begin managing your PC inventory and software licenses. Everything you need—the hardware, operating system, database, software and more—is integrated in a beautiful desktop appliance form factor.

Software Licence Management
Software license management can be a huge strain on your time—it involves tracking numerous software titles and licenses, while making sure the number of installations on your network doesn't exceed the number of licenses you own. Software audits can test the limits of your stress threshold, requiring detailed reports and imposing hefty fines as a consequence for failure. The M300 streamlines and simplifies the software license management process. Its intuitive interface displays managed software assets and provides valuable information about what is and isn't in compliance. The M300 saves your company money in important ways, allowing you to get rid of licenses you no longer need, leverage unused licenses rather than making unnecessary purchases and avoid the hassle and extra expenses associated with a failed software audit. If you want to see how quickly the M300 can pay for itself, this is the place to start.

True Compliance Assesment
The M300 provides all the relevant details about every piece of software installed on every machine. It handles multiple software titles and multiple licensing structures like a champ. By reconciling software installations on the network with license ownership, the M300 allows you to be confident in your compliance status and lets you know exactly what remediation tasks are required in the event you aren't compliant.

Software Notification System
Not only does the M300 continuously notify you of ongoing activity like software installations that affect license compliance, it automatically creates a "to-do list" for achieving compliance to make this important task as easy as possible. This means that you can be instantly aware of any pending or past activity that relates to software license management.

Software Version Management
A single software title such as Microsoft Office 2010 can have numerous versions existing in your network's inventory, since software updates are released at a high frequency. It's important to group related software versions as a singular software asset for license management purposes. The M300 ensures that all appropriate software versions in your network are consolidated under managed software asset groups. This makes it easy to find, remove and add relevant software versions so that no software installations slip through the cracks and go unmanaged.