Once you’ve captured the attributes mentioned below for ALL your servers, switches, firewalls and other equipments, you can use this master list to track any future enterprise wide implementation/changes.If you document without understanding or believing the purpose, you will essentially leave out lot of critical details, which will eventually make the document worthless. Instead, create the document because you truly believe it will add value to you and your team. Don’t create document because your boss is insisting on it.When it comes to documentation, the more details you can add is better. But, a seasoned sysadmin knows that spending time to document the details about the equipemnts, is going to save lot of time in the future, when there is a problem. They would rather spend time exploring cool new technology than documenting their current hardware and environment.
SERVER ASSET MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Once you have documented everything, later you can always find a software and export this data to it. Keep it simple and use a spread sheet for tracking. Don’t get trapped into researching the best available asset tracking software. Identifying What needs to be tracked is far more important than How you are tracking it.I have also provided a spreadsheet template with these fields that will give you a jumpstart.īefore getting into the details of what needs to be tracked, let us look at few reasons on why you should document ALL your equipments. In this article, I have listed 36 attributes that needs to be tracked for your equipments, with an explanation on why it needs to be tracked. If you are managing more than one equipment in your organization, it is very important to document and track ALL information about the servers effectively.
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