Table 4 1   Sample hardware survey results

Model

Type

RAM in GB

Disk in GB

Total

Attachments

2373MU4

T40

2

80

120

List of the various 

peripheral devices 

23668AU

T30

1

60

42

attached: Printers, 

scanners, digital 

2366MU1

T30

1

48

1023

cameras, USB 

devices, etc.

2366MU9

T30

0.5

48

311

26473U5

T23

1

48

278

26476RU

T23

0.5

30

67

26478EU

T22

1

30

44

264757U

T21

0.5

24

1

2682MU3

R40

1

48

99

4.1.3  Assessing the client software configuration

You need to complete a client software configuration survey of all client systems 

targeted for migration. The results of this survey will enable you to identify all 

applications, services, special configurations, and component support issues that 

need to be considered in the migration plan. This survey may shed light on 

specific technical support issues, such as hidden user IDs, scheduled tasks, etc.

Key survey questions:

What is your set of native applications? This will result in a list of ISV 

applications including version used and potential fixes applied.

What is your set of internal applications? This will result in a list of 

applications developed and maintained within the company.

What is the set of applications requiring access to data external to the client? 

This will result in a list of applications accessing file servers, application 

servers, Web servers, databases, mainframes and other implementation of 

data processing. See 4.4,  Migrating applications  on page 63, for more 

details.

Do you have groups of users defined? How are they characterized? This 

should give an overview as to whether there are some typical groups or users 

and, if so, how they are grouped. Grouping can be done by departments, 

applications used, type of work, or business responsibility. If a questionnaire 

is used interacting with end users, then this should become a kind of 

self assessment.

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