Asset Integrity Monitoring is a practice that focuses on achieving SLA commitments, ensuring equipment and data is secure, financial accountability, and tracking and reporting for regulatory compliance. Knowing what is in production and what equipment is in inventory as spares or waiting for deployment is daunting when managed by a spreadsheet. More important is knowing where the assets are physically. Ticketing systems rely on the CMDB; if the CMDB relies on individuals to update it manually, it quickly becomes outdated and useless. Not grasping all of your assets can lead to overbuying or missing SLAs when a repair is needed. Financial accountability and theft control also become concerns for many organizations that do not have accurate inventory and traceable accounting for equipment.
This whitepaper will discuss the ongoing cycle and disciplines required for Asset Integrity Monitoring in your data center and across your Hybrid Cloud.
