This database admin pilot fish works for a local government IT shop where everyone wears several hats — and one of hers is asset inventory system guru.

“A member of the workstation imaging team came to me with a problem: The new tablets being built on the bench just were not being found by the inventory system,” says fish. “No matter how often the builder ran the network discovery program, the tablets were never found until after they were removed from the bench and delivered to the users.

“I asked them to leave a tablet running and make sure it didn’t go to sleep or shut down while I ran discovery. Sure enough, it didn’t work. The name didn’t show up in the newly discovered list.

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