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Managed SAM Services

Continuous, independent software asset management across every publisher that drives cost and compliance risk.

Managed SAM at a glance

ModelIndependent, multi-vendor SAM delivered continuously or on a schedule.

CoverageOracle, Microsoft, Broadcom/VMware, IBM, Red Hat, Adobe and security tools, plus any publisher you name.

OutcomeCost-optimization targets met, risk governed, and one trustworthy source of licence truth.

EngineAgentless & agent-based discovery feeding the Euladox inventory and CMDB.

Goals of SAM Managed Services:

  1. Establish a transparent platform of trustworthy license compliance data.
  2. Meet licence risk-management and governance objectives.
  3. Meet software and cloud cost-optimization targets.
Software asset management fails most often not for want of a tool, but for want of ownership.

A managed service closes that gap: we run the discipline for you, year-round, so the estate never drifts far from its licensed position. A single, defensible record of what you run and what you're entitled to is what turns an audit from a scramble into a verification.

The vendors we manage

Covering the publishers that drive the most cost and compliance risk.

Priority

Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Broadcom/VMware, Red Hat, Quest, Micro Focus.

Extended

Salesforce, Citrix, Autodesk, McAfee & security tools, TIBCO, Siemens, Dassault.

On request

Any publisher a client specifically requests: we set up the discovery and management process for it.

Everything else

All software found during the network scan: we provide the deployment data.

The managed service process

A continuous loop, not a one-off project.

Each pass discovers the estate, recognises and normalises the raw data, reconciles it against your entitlements to produce an Effective License Position, optimises and remediates, and reports against your cost and risk targets. Then it repeats.

  1. Discover
  2. Recognise & normalise
  3. Reconcile: Effective License Position
  4. Optimise & remediate
  5. Report against targets
IT asset & software discovery

Everything starts with knowing exactly what you run.

Agentless Discovery

Rythium's Discovery Satellite performs agentless discovery, searching the network to find all assets: compute hardware, installed software, SNMP devices, virtualization hosts and virtual machines, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Windows, Linux, Unix, macOS and every major hypervisor (VMware ESXi, XenServer, OVM, KVM, AHV, Hyper-V) are all discovered without installing anything on the targets.

Windows Agent

For customers who prefer it, the Rythium Discovery Agent deploys on Windows endpoints and reports back regularly, adding application log-in detail on top of the hardware and software inventory.

What we discover

Hardware platforms

  • Windows desktop & server
  • macOS
  • Unix
  • HP-UX
  • Linux
  • IBM AIX
  • Sun/Oracle Solaris

Virtualization

  • VMware
  • IBM LPAR
  • Hyper-V
  • Oracle VM
  • Citrix/Xen
  • Linux hypervisors (KVM)
  • Host-to-VM mapping

Network & SNMP devices

  • Printers
  • Switches
  • Routers
  • Network hubs
  • Scanners
  • Projectors

Software

  • Installed and recently-used Windows software
  • Unix/Linux software
  • Oracle Database options and packs
  • Middleware features
  • Java

The last three are the ones that matter most for licensing.

Backed by our own platform

The Euladox ITAM platform

The data lands in Euladox ITAM, our enterprise IT asset management platform, built to give you visibility and control of every asset across its life-cycle from a single, centralised database: a genuine single source of truth, aligned to the ISO 19770 and ISO 20770 standards.

Automated discovery & recognitionA deep hardware catalogue (every server built since 2001, all hypervisor versions, all major OS versions) turns raw scan data into error-free asset recognition and an exact deployed-licence position.

Specialised adaptorsNative adaptors for Active Directory, VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, OVM, Oracle Database, WebLogic and Middleware, E-Business Suite, Java, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, WebSphere and MQ, and more.

Asset CMDB & user linkageRelationships and dependencies tracked over time, with automated and manual mapping of users to devices for ownership and incident resolution.

Contracts, warranty & AMCContract management fully integrated with the asset record, with notifications and alerts for renewals, AMC and true-up deadlines.

50+ reports & viewsRaw or normalised, filterable across the estate, built on frameworks drawn from IAITAM, Gartner and ITIL.

Alongside the managed SAM platform we bring our full Oracle LMS expertise (audit defense, ULA certification, Java review and cost reduction), so discovery data flows straight into decisions that reduce spend and risk.

Straight answers to the questions we get most

What does a managed SAM service actually do?

It runs software asset management for you, continuously or on a schedule: discovering the estate, reconciling deployments against entitlements, remediating non-compliance and reporting against agreed cost and risk targets, so you hold one trustworthy source of licence truth all year.

Which vendors do you manage?

The priority publishers are Oracle, Microsoft, Broadcom/VMware, IBM, Red Hat and Adobe, plus security tooling, and we set up discovery for any publisher you name. The scan also returns deployment data for everything else it finds.

Do you need to install agents on our machines?

No. The preferred mode is agentless discovery over WMI, SSH and SNMP, with no client software on the targets. An optional Windows agent is available where deeper, continuous data is wanted.

How is this different from a normal discovery tool?

Most scanners return raw data with little context. Euladox recognises assets against an extensive catalogue, maps them to entitlements and builds a proper CMDB, so you get an Effective License Position you can act on, not just a list of installs.

Want a trustworthy picture of your whole software deployment estate?

We'll conduct discovery, build your Effective License Position across every priority publisher, and run the governance loop, independently, with no vendor on the other side of our fee.

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