As government agencies begin the process of data center consolidation, they first must determine what assets they have. Today, this process is often a time-consuming and cumbersome manual process, involving many stakeholders across IT, operations and even facilities management.

To plan effectively for consolidation, agencies need accurate inventories of infrastructure, applications and networking assets.

This brief paper details an approach to solve these issues using a complementary set of tools to address the complete data center and support the IT environment in an efficient and comprehensive manner.