Steve Wilson challenged us to put yourselves on YouTube. While I'm not ready to post videos of myself, I am ready to put my dog out there. This really happened, so it seems like a good place to start.
Marley and I were at the dog park a couple of weeks ago and I was chatting with Sue while our dogs played. When she learned that I work at Sun, she asked me about Sun Connection's Inventory Channel. She wanted the inside scoop. We talked for quite awhile and I thought that we'd covered everything. I was surprised when Sue tracked me down at work the next morning (impressive, since she hadn't written down my name or number) and set up an impromptu conference call with one of her co-workers. We went through everything that we talked about at the park, and more.
What is Sun Connection's Inventory Channel?
It's a new web-based service that you can use to register one or more of your eligible IT assets at the same time, and then use it to manage your registered inventory.
How does registration work?
If Sun Service Tags are embedded in your software, hardware, or storage devices, you can register them. Service tags are very lightweight and don't do anything on their own, you control the registration.
To register:
Get the Product Registration Manager. - Go to the Inventory Channel and click Discover Now to find out what's available for registration. You can define the scan parameters, such as scan your local subnet, or enter specific subnets, host names, or IP addresses.
- Log in to the Inventory Channel with your Sun Online Account ID and select the product or products you want to register, then click Next to complete the registration.
- View your registered assets in the Inventory Channel. If you want to track other information, edit the asset details.
That's it. Once registered, you can group the assets and then export the information in an XML, CSV, or PDF format. Just what the boss wants, without manually updating a spreadsheet ...and, it's free. No cost, nada!
Get more information here, or check out this screen cast to learn how to manage and organize your registered assets.
Want to see Marley in action? Check out his YouTube video.
See you at the park!
Marley and Laura