Sun has just released an Inventory channel off Sun Connection used to register your assets, group them, track service contract IDs and report on all of it. This is a foundational component for future Sun Connection channels such as Sun Update, OS provisioning, application provisioning, and monitoring. The cool feature around this inventory service is the discovery client. Sun is bundling Service Tags into all OS and software products, so soon discovery of new assets onto your network will be a breeze. For existing system, you just deploy the tags to each asset you want discovered, run the java web start client, and then go to the Inventory portal.
cool stuff!
