Software Compliance Auditors Toolkit
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The Software Compliance Auditors Toolkit CD-ROM is designed to audit any Windows based desktop PC system (Win 95, Win 98, Win NT 4) and extract sufficient details to enable you to match installed software with licenses and disks etc so that you can demonstrate and maintain software compliance at all times. with installed software.
It's primary aim and focus is to ENSURE that you have the means to survive a desktop audit by any of the anti-piracy bodies (Microsoft, BSAA, FAST, BSA etc) and more importantly to ensure that the policies that you have in place for desktop installation and ownership of software are being followed.
This tool also provides a means for you to investigate DLL conflicts, and downloads of sound and image files to your systems that may be wasting both time, bandwidth and productivity, thus costing your organization MONEY! Accountants and external auditors can use the tool as a means of revenue generation by "consulting software compliance audits" with the toolkit!
Traditional audit's with some software tools could only tell the following details about software installed on your PC and required installation on the desktop or network.
C:\Program Files\PhotoDeluxe HE 3.1\EZPhoto\
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Ezphoto.exe 738816 04-20-98 2:57p
The Software Compliance Auditors Toolkit tells you the following about software installed on a PC;
C:\Program Files\PhotoDeluxe HE 3.1\EZPhoto\
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Ezphoto.exe 738816 04-20-98 2:57p EasyPhoto 2.7.2.7 (Adobe) EZPHOTO Storm
Technology. Inc. EZPHOTO.EXE
This is the MINIMUM level of detail you need to know about each software application so that you can match licences and disks to installed software as evidence that you own licenses for what is installed.
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SOFTWARE COMPLIANCE AUDITORS TOOLKIT CD-ROM version comprises;
AUDIT-Manager v 2.3 CD-ROM version
AUDIT-DLL
AUDIT-Image
AUDIT-Sounds
Software Compliance Screen Message system
Large database of 33,000 exe file names (44,000 in total)
Database of 3,000 file types
Links to Managers toolkit of documents, policies and procedures, audit tips
Links to Software Compliance PowerPoint slide show
Links to web pages for software audit resources for auditors
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- NOTES REGARDING SOFTWARE COMPLIANCE AUDITORS TOOLKIT
1. Due to the proprietary manner in which we gather the audit details relative to each PC this software can only be run from CD-ROM. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GATHER the level of details contained in the audit files via a floppy disk audit as we need to include special drivers and files to capture this information.
2. This software cannot be installed to a local PC from this CD-ROM version. It is set-up to be run from the CD-ROM and writes 2 audit files for each PC audit, (TXT and RTF) by node name, back to a floppy disk that you need to insert in drive A and each floppy will hold the contents of approx 4 to 5 audits (based on typical PC systems).
NOTE: If you need a desktop installation program to install it on each PC then please see 5 below.
3. If you are auditing PC's containing Windows 3.1, 3.11, Windows NT 3.51 or 4.0, some application details may not be retrievable by AUDIT Manager Version 2.1. Application executable's version information is identified using standard Windows naming conventions and where applications do not follow this format then it is NOT POSSIBLE to have this detail identified and displayed.
To assist you in this manner the audit file generated (yyyymmdd.RTF) will show files first by IDENTIFIED APPLICATION name, and then will list those files detected BUT NOT named.
A sample audit RTF audit report is available at http://www.pcprofile.com/20000806.zip
On the CD-ROM based Software Compliance Auditors Toolkit we INCLUDE a database of approx 33,000 exe file names (44,000 incl dll's and other program names) to assist you in cross matching (using a parsing routine that you can develop in-house) to identify from the database of file names supplied.
4. Also included in the Software Compliance Auditors Toolkit
AUDIT-DLL looks strictly at DLL files only
(helps manage dll conflicts by identifying by name each dll)
AUDIT-Image looks strictly at 3 major image file types
(helps manage hard disk space!)
AUDIT-Sounds looks strictly at major sound file types
(helps manage hard disk space and wasted time on music downloads!)
AUDIT-DLL
AUDIT-Image
AUDIT-Sounds
Software Compliance Screen Message system
Large database of 33,000 exe file names (44,000 in total)
Database of 3,000 file types
Links to Managers toolkit of documents, policies and procedures, audit tips
Links to Software Compliance PowerPoint slide show
Links to web pages for software audit resources for auditors
Software Compliance Auditors Toollkit, AUDIT Manager and Software Inventory System Copyright 1999-2001
- Copyright (C) 2001 Rob Harmer Consulting Services
Pty Ltd All rights reserved Worldwide
Rob Harmer Consulting Services Pty Ltd
P.O. Box 196 Modbury North Sth Australia 5092 fax +61 8 8265 1961
email robharm@pcprofile.com http://www.pcprofile.com
