Yes...it's generally called RFID. And you're right--it is cool. In my mind, in a large enterprise, it's the only way automating the discovery and tracking of actual assets can be done practically.
In a smaller organization, yeah--get a report from your autodiscovery tool that reports deltas and then walk around and check to make sure all your stuff is where it's supposed to be. But in an enormous enterprise--say DoD--that involves tremendous overhead. Re your comment: "Now I would think a user would report that there system is missing or we would hope so." YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED AT HOW UNTRUE THIS IS! I'm thinking SMS by itself used for this purpose is borderline worthless. Anyone care to comment? -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Caissie Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Real-World Value of SMS & CMDB We use LANDesk at our location and I have all the systems setup to check in every 15 days and when it get inventoried at that time it sends the data to Remedy, now we could have a monthly report showing what systems didn't check in after a number of days so it could be followed up with. Now I would think a user would report that there system is missing or we would hope so. I did get a demo of a lojack type of software a while back that would track down missing assets now that was cool. Dan Caissie -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carey Matthew Black Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Real-World Value of SMS & CMDB Or I think you can just throw all of the discovered data (from one or more sources) at your CMDB and use the heck out of the Reconciliation Engine to detect "missing" stuff. Yes this is a brute force technique, but when you have no money to spend... you do the ugly stuff sometimes. -- Carey Matthew Black Remedy Skilled Professional (RSP) ARS = Action Request System(Remedy) Love, then teach Solution = People + Process + Tools Fast, Accurate, Cheap.... Pick two. On 6/27/07, Rick Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ** > > Actually, your better discovery platforms (which may or may not include SMS) > can allow alarms to be set for things like differences in discovered > hardware. Consult your system documentation to see if that's available. I > remember that a really old version of LANDesk had that. > > Rick ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
