Current state of IT asset management.

[twinrider1]

Many moons ago I worked around a lot of enterprise equipment. Not as a rack and stack tech, but on site with them in a finance/operational role. Part of what we had to do was keep track of where each piece of equipment was located.
Back then it was mostly asset tags and a database built in-house. A lot of equipment could be remotely managed, but a lot couldn't, so it all had to be physically tagged. For example, the area where Cisco stored the serial number could be overwritten by future software updates.

I'm curious to know how asset tracking is handled today at an enterprise level. Thanks.

 

[Oyeve]

I personally use Spiceworks Desktop for all of my sites. Its freeish and works well.

 

[WackyDan]

IBM BigFix.

 

[bfun_x1]

Cisco offers the CSPC (Common Service Platform Collector). I've never been a fan of collectors of any type but a lot of people use them.