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Hardware Inventory Basics

Know your physical assets

Maintaining a hardware inventory means recording devices, serials, users, locations, warranties, and lifecycle states, enabling patching, recovery, and audits.

Capture Data

Log serials, models, users, locations, purchase and warranty dates.

Maintain

Update on moves/transfers; track status (in use, spare, retired).

Audit

Reconcile periodically; use tags and automated discovery where possible.

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