At a certain point things don't get engraved or tracked individually as they're inside a larger device. For example the linecards in a Cisco 7604 might not have asset tags or engravings on them because it'll become immediately obvious in openNMS if a linecard disappears from the network.
Router chassis and distribution switches get numbers, as do UPS, which are used to match a new-site build ticket to as-built inspection photos, which go in an internal wiki, hopefully to aid people in finding hard-to-locate MPOE and IDF rooms during a 2am outage. If a site is decommissioned the list of stuff that speaks IP coming back goes in the ticket (again opennms will alarm on everything when it goes dark, unless the outage if scheduled, so the person who owns the decom ticket manually removes the devices from opennms). On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > We use non removal stickers on all equipment and track it via bar code > scanning into an internally developed application. This is primarily > desktops/corporate servers/notebooks more than anything else. Public > servers and network gear do not have this yet as they are operated by a > different group, but at some point we’d like to integrate both sides. > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Eric Kuhnke > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 3, 2016 4:04 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Physical asset inventory > > > > Everything I care about has an IP address in management RFC1918 blocks and > is monitored in OpenNMS - if somebody steals a piece of a POP, we'll know > about it... > > $15 cordless engraver is used to etch names on some key equipment. > > http://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-Instruments-505-Precision/dp/B004YK66NM > > Equipment that is in storage for spares or awaiting deployment is tracked > using the same inventory spreadsheet used to track purchasing (eg: an > incoming purchase invoice/bill of sale email is matched with an incoming > UPS or FedEx tracking number, when the item arrives and is unboxed and > placed on a shelf, the status column of its row is updated). > > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone use barcodes? How exhaustive and anal do some of you get when > maintaining your asset records? > > >
