Machines+People is a tool for IT professionals to maintain key data pertaining to a client's IT environment. It is not necessarily a simple user friendly application and we don't apologize for that. This application will contain data that is sensitive to your client and needs to be secure. The application will run on Macintosh, Windows, and most Linux distributions. It is intended to be run from a thumbdrive inserted into whichever machine is being worked on.

Machines

The central component to Machines+People is the machine. A computer. For the purpose of getting to know Machines+People it all starts there. When in the process of building and deploying a machine we begin by taking note of the hardware specs and adding the "base" users. The base users are the admin users. Sometimes that is the final user but sometimes it is the IT department as user.

People

Now the machine is ready to be deployed and have end users assigned to it. The first step is to add users to the People database. People data that we track is name, user long name, user short name, password, whether they have admin privileges, their email information, and notes. Enter some users and then just drag and drop them onto a machine.

Software

A machine isn't much use without software so we will need to add that as well. Before you can do that you need to enter your software titles into the database. Product title, version, serial number, and seats should be entered. There is a field for notes as well. Once you have the software entered you can drag a software title onto a machine to add it to that machine. This will also subtract one seat from the license.

Resources

Resources provide access to shared hardware such as printers as well as services such as ISP account information, router configuration basics, and email server configuraion settings.