Monitor IT assets to determine their overall health or status. Areas of interest include meeting licensing requirements, whether assets are sufficiently up to date, and compliance with security requirements, among others.

In addition, more formal auditing is performed to ensure that data in asset information repositories corresponds to assets in the physical environment. Audits match discovered inventory information with existing assets. Reconcile discrepancies between information repositories and the physical environment by either updating data in the information repositories or requesting changes to the physical environment. Also, the findings of an audit might result in a request for an audit of the IT configuration.