Maintaining hardware records

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Applies To: Forefront Client Security

To limit the amount of time you spend troubleshooting hardware configuration problems during a disaster recovery, maintain current hardware configuration records, including a list of:

  • All hardware vendor contact information, including phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and Web pages for online support.

  • Hardware in each server, with firmware update versions and hardware driver versions. (This hardware information can be found in Windows Device Manager.)

  • Basic input/output system (BIOS) information, interrupt request (IRQ) settings, hard disk configuration information, and jumper settings on the hardware for your server.

Important

Maintain a copy of this information off-site in case your facilities are damaged and you need to recover your systems in a new location.