Microsoft System Center 2016 Service Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating an Asset Management process

This recipe will provide steps for creating a sample Asset Management process.

Getting ready

For this recipe, the authors recommend you read up on the difference between asset inventory and asset management as an organizational process.

How to do it...

Asset Management is a life cycle process, which tracks an IT asset with its associated financial data from when the asset is requested to when the asset is retired, as shown in the following figure:

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An example of the steps for creating an Asset Management process is as follows:

1. Agree and document the organization's asset management policy.
2. Document the operational process ...