Re: Inventory Benchmark

[Frank Barton <bartonf () HUSSON EDU>]

I think that one thing you are going to run into is seasonal changes...
Over "break" times your off-campus number is going to increase.

I would try to break it down further
-Of static machines (Desktops) I would be very strict. <5%
-Of Critical machines (say Servers), even more strict 0%, pending approved
downtime
-Of mobile machines (laptops), I think it depends on your criteria of how
recently do you allow for a check-in to count for reporting in? past week?
past 48 hours?

Also, can you have machines report in from off-site?

tl;dr - too many variables to put a quick number on it.

Frank

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Barton, Robert W. <bartonrt () lewisu edu>
wrote:

> Morning,
>
>
>
> In trying to evaluate our inventory process; I’m trying to figure out a
> good benchmark for our inventory percent managed/known.  I would like to
> say, that at any given time, we only have X% of unknown hardware.  So, if
> you asked on Tuesday, I could say we only have 115 machines unaccounted for
> in Symantec because they are off site, down, or otherwise non-communicating
> (115 = 5%).  That unknown number would need to included inventory
> issues/errors, non-reporting machines (off site, or down), and machines not
> controlled yet.  10% to high?  5% to strict?
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Frank Barton
ACMT
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Husson University