The company I'm working for is attempting to create an inventory tracking system for all the computers in our offices. We track the Computer and the Monitor by an Asset tag we created and a Serial Number provided on the computer. Then we change the computers names to be that of their asset tags so we can better track them.
But how can we digitally track monitors? They have no unique digital identifier.
How do big business track monitor assets?
you could use the serial number of the monitor.
my BF is in IT, and that's what he said he does.
How do big business track monitor assets?
Interesting accounting problem. I do small business accounting (all straight-line and easy), but have never done the same for a large firm.
The question boils down to - how do you track all computer peripherals? I'm sure you don't assign unique numbers to all mice or all keyboards, but what about printers?
A suggestion that pops to mind would be to treat the major peripherals as %26quot;A%26quot;s and %26quot;B%26quot;s to their respective original computers. That is, if a computer is #12345, its original monitor would always be #12345a whereever it ended up, and so on. Shared printers could always be %26quot;A%26quot;s to the lowest sharing computer number. New monitors could be %26quot;B%26quot;s to specific computers.
That's about the best I can think of. Removable drives, new towers, and high-priced software are similar accounting/tracking problems. Good luck.
You can get one of those little hand held machines and start your own numbering system. Etch the numbers to the monitors or whatever else.
