Asset Inventory

Maintain comprehensive IT asset tracking.

Asset Categories

asset_types: hardware: - Servers - Network devices - Endpoints

software: - Applications - Operating systems - Licenses

cloud: - Compute instances - Storage - Databases

data: - Databases - File shares - Backups

AWS Inventory

List all resources

aws resourcegroupstaggingapi get-resources

EC2 instances

aws ec2 describe-instances --query 'Reservations[].Instances[].[InstanceId,InstanceType,State.Name]'

AWS Config

aws configservice describe-configuration-recorders

Asset Database Schema

asset: id: unique identifier name: display name type: hardware/software/cloud owner: responsible team classification: public/internal/confidential location: physical/cloud location status: active/retired/decommissioned created: timestamp updated: timestamp tags: []

Best Practices

• Automated discovery

• Regular reconciliation

• Owner assignment

• Classification tagging

• Lifecycle tracking