Equipment and Inventory

Overview

CSCF maintains a database of most of our equipment. As equipment comes in we assign a barcode to most items and then record Model#, Vendor, Serial#, Purchase Order #, Warranty information and several other details. When equipment is moved, we record the room number where it can be found. When equipment is no longer needed, we then formally surplus that equipment for eventual sale through Central Stores.

Web access

• You can login to the Inventory system here: https://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/inventory/

Documentation

• See: InventoryUserDocs for current documentation
• See: OldEquipmentInventory for older documentation

Procedures

• How to CreateBarcodes
• How to CreateBarcodesNew
• How to add a new computer/printer/display - documentation needed!
  • some information here: InventoryUserDocs#Creating_a_New_Record
• How to SurplusEquipment

Development

• See InventorySystemAdministratorDocumentation for regular sysadmin tasks
• See InventoryRedesignRequirements for design and development documentation
• See DomainNameExtension for proposals about how to support the campus change to DNS domains
• See OldEquipmentInventoryStillCurrent for design notes and pointers that are still current from the old version