The slideshow I had developed for Same (Supernodal Asset Management Environment), part of the University of Toledo Engineering Design Expo, and my senior capstone project.

1. SameByTeam 17 Supernodal Asset Management Environment

2. Same Same is… A new approach to IT Asset Management inventory applications A way to increase the efficiency of your IT department, and therefore your entire company Able to collect hardware and software information through the network automatically, and without disturbing anyone Our idea of how inventory management should work Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

3. Same Same is… A new approach to IT Asset Management inventory applications A way to increase the efficiency of your IT department, and therefore your entire company Able to collect hardware and software information through the network automatically, and without disturbing anyone Our idea of how inventory management should work Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

4. Same Same is… A new approach to IT Asset Management inventory applications A way to increase the efficiency of your IT department, and therefore your entire company Able to collect hardware and software information through the network automatically, and without disturbing anyone Our idea of how inventory management should work Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

5. Same Same is… A new approach to IT Asset Management inventory applications A way to increase the efficiency of your IT department, and therefore your entire company Able to collect hardware and software information through the network automatically, and without disturbing anyone Our idea of how inventory management should work Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

6. Same Inventory management is considered one of the most important aspects of maintaining an efficient Information Technology Department. It provides IT staff with the answers to questions like: What software is used the most by our users? Which computers need replaced the soonest? Traditionally, inventory management applications are either designed for small businesses or large businesses, not both. Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

7. Same Inventory management is considered one of the most important aspects of maintaining an efficient Information Technology Department. It provides IT staff with the answers to questions like: What software is used the most by our users? Which computers need replaced the soonest? Traditionally, inventory management applications are either designed for small businesses or large businesses, not both. Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

8. Same Inventory management is considered one of the most important aspects of maintaining an efficient Information Technology Department. It provides IT staff with the answers to questions like: What software is used the most by our users? Which computers need replaced the soonest? Traditionally, inventory management applications are either designed for small businesses or large businesses, not both. Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

9. Same Small business-oriented programs… Scan a network, pulling information from each computer they find one by one. Can work seamlessly on all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) Require nothing but a server to work from and a network to scan Take far too long to scan a large network To scan the University of Toledo would take a month! Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

10. Same Small business-oriented programs… Scan a network, pulling information from each computer they find one by one. Can work seamlessly on all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) Require nothing but a server to work from and a network to scan Take far too long to scan a large network To scan the University of Toledo would take a month! Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

11. Same Small business-oriented programs… Scan a network, pulling information from each computer they find one by one. Can work seamlessly on all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) Require nothing but a server to work from and a network to scan Take far too long to scan a large network To scan the University of Toledo would take a month! Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

12. Same Small business-oriented programs… Scan a network, pulling information from each computer they find one by one. Can work seamlessly on all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) Require nothing but a server to work from and a network to scan Take far too long to scan a large network To scan the University of Toledo would take a month! Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

13. Same Large business-oriented programs… Usually need a separate program, often called an ‘agent’, to be installed on every computer Often require substantial (and extremely costly) infrastructure systems be in place to work right Mostly only support Windows, because of the requirements mentioned earlier Run lightning fast because the agent does all the work, and can often help manage computers too Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

14. Same Large business-oriented programs… Usually need a separate program, often called an ‘agent’, to be installed on every computer Often require substantial (and extremely costly) infrastructure systems be in place to work right Mostly only support Windows, because of the requirements mentioned earlier Run lightning fast because the agent does all the work, and can often help manage computers too Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

15. Same Large business-oriented programs… Usually need a separate program, often called an ‘agent’, to be installed on every computer Often require substantial (and extremely costly) infrastructure systems be in place to work right Mostly only support Windows, because of the requirements mentioned earlier Run lightning fast because the agent does all the work, and can often help manage computers too Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

16. Same Large business-oriented programs… Usually need a separate program, often called an ‘agent’, to be installed on every computer Often require substantial (and extremely costly) infrastructure systems be in place to work right Mostly only support Windows, because of the requirements mentioned earlier Run lightning fast because the agent does all the work, and can often help manage computers too Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

17. Same What makes Same different? Same is a hybrid of the small business and large business methods. It uses a networking concept known as ‘Supernodes’ to distribute the work evenly, greatly speeding up the whole scanning process Supernodes are computers on a network that can perform tasks for a server, so it can focus on other jobs Same can scale to meet the needs of any company Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

18. Same What makes Same different? Same is a hybrid of the small business and large business methods. It uses a networking concept known as ‘Supernodes’ to distribute the work evenly, greatly speeding up the whole scanning process Supernodes are computers on a network that can perform tasks for a server, so it can focus on other jobs Same can scale to meet the needs of any company Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

19. Same What makes Same different? Same is a hybrid of the small business and large business methods. It uses a networking concept known as ‘Supernodes’ to distribute the work evenly, greatly speeding up the whole scanning process Supernodes are computers on a network that can perform tasks for a server, so it can focus on other jobs Same can scale to meet the needs of any company Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

20. Same Same is a suite of three applications A database, to store collected data and act as a scanner switchboard A set of scanners, which work as a team to quickly gather information A web interface, for reporting and scanner administration Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

21. An overview of Same’s web-based interface Same Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

22. Same Dashboard Provides Administrator and Technician level users of Same a quick view of scanner status, as well as access to newly scanned computers and saved reports Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

23. Same Inventory Displays all the information the database has to offer about the computers found on the network. Provides an easy to digest format for important data. Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

24. Same Reports A user friendly way of creating customized views of the data collected by Same. Users choose which columns to display in what order, and can set filters to narrow results. Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

25. Same Configure Accessible only to the Administrator level users. Add new users, edit existing ones, authorize and set up scan jobs and quickly access to the interface’s usage logs. Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

26. Step-by-step with the Same scanner program Same Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

27. Same The Same scanner Written using the Ruby programming language Unlike most programming languages, Ruby programs can be run on any operating system without making any changes to the code Designed to run in the background as a service on the Supernode it operates from, so users won’t even realize it’s there Uses the Same database to distribute the workload evenly across all scanners Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

28. Same The Same scanner Written using the Ruby programming language Unlike most programming languages, Ruby programs can be run on any operating system without making any changes to the code Designed to run in the background as a service on the Supernode it operates from, so users won’t even realize it’s there Uses the Same database to distribute the workload evenly across all scanners Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

29. Same The Same scanner Written using the Ruby programming language Unlike most programming languages, Ruby programs can be run on any operating system without making any changes to the code Designed to run in the background as a service on the Supernode it operates from, so users won’t even realize it’s there Uses the Same database to distribute the workload evenly across all scanners Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

30. Same The Same scanner Uses a special secure algorithm to generate the database credentials to use Checks in with the server, looking for any outstanding scan requests to do Works through the list of IP addresses given in the scan request, trying each address to see if a computer is currently using it Attempts to connect to each computer using the username and password listed as part of the scan request Gathers all the information it can on the computers it connects to Sends the results of the scan to the database for storage and later review Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved

31. Team 17 thanks you for your interest! Same Team 17 Senior Technology Capstone Copyright © 2009 Nick Fraker & Kat Schudel, All Rights Reserved