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Managing Assets

Nedi manages the life-cycle of your network infrastructure from purchasing until disposal. It allows you to include vendor's end of life information in order to identify unsupported hardware and maintenance contracts. The latter lets you find hardware not under maintenance or items you're paying for, that don't even exist in your network!

Assets are stored in the inventory table. They can be manually added with Assets-Management or automatically with the -Y switch in nedi.pl.

Possible life-cycle stages:

  1. New: Adding devices and modules to inventory via barcode scanner (keeping track of spares)
  2. Active: Items with serial numbers can automatically updated upon discovery (managing equipment in use)
  3. Used: Item has been removed from network and put back in storage.
  4. Replaced: Item has been replaced by a another one (e.g. RMA)
  5. Disposed: Item has been removed from network and and trashed
  6. Traded-in: Item has been removed from network and traded in for new ones

Cisco EoL information

A file called ciscoeol.tgz can be uploaded with System-Files. It contains a list of all products with known EoL information. The fields are mapped as follows: