
However you refer to it, the fact of the matter is that it’s a necessary part of your hardware’s lifecycle, and your overall ITAM strategy. Whether you think about it as it HP warranty check time, or time to renew your Dell service agreements. Your customers, and ultimately your company depend on it! Second, only to a detailed inventory of all the IT assets you own and their overall utilization for managing the scale of your deployment in response to load and other factors, it’s imperative to know that all of your hardware is reliable. No matter what you call it, none of us ever want to be caught running on an unsupported server or out-of-warranty network hardware in most any role, never mind in a production critical one – (we prefer spending weekends outside the office)! Whether you’re an IT manager, an Engineer, or a DevOps guy or gal, there’s a good chance that from time-to-time, you or someone on your team has stopped whatever they were doing to take care of the less-than-glorious task of ensuring all production servers are still covered by their Dell service contracts or HP warranties. The less-than-glorious side of system administration
