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Tally Systems, based in Lebanon, New Hampshire, sells a set of so-called asset management tools for tracking computing resources, such as equipment and software licences. It also has programs for analysing software usage and inventory.
Effective asset management, using a combination of automated discovery and manual cataloguing, is a useful foundation for any monitoring project, although some forms of monitoring can be done without it.