Summary

In this whitepaper we covered some basic requirements of any automated network auditing solution and introduced the various different components of Microforge.net Enterprise Server and, in particular, auditing agents.

We then discussed the details of each of these auditing agents, paying attention to the particular requirements of each and how these could be deployed on a network to automatically gather information about the IT assets on that network.

Finally, we saw how these various auditing agents compared to one another in various different network environments, and discussed the performance and security implications of choices that you will need to make in order to be able to deploy these auditing agents with Enterprise Server on your network.

Hopefully, having read this document, you now have a better understanding of the tools and technologies that are available to you when using Microforge.net Enterprise Server and you are now in a position to map out an effective auditing strategy for the IT assets that you manage in your organization.