No matter what you call it, none of us ever want to be caught running on an unsupported server or out-of-warranty network hardware in most any role, never mind in a production critical one – (we prefer spending weekends outside the office)! Whether you’re an IT manager, an Engineer, or a DevOps guy or gal, there’s a good chance that from time-to-time, you or someone on your team has stopped whatever they were doing to take care of the less-than-glorious task of ensuring all production servers are still covered by their Dell service contracts or HP warranties. The less-than-glorious side of system administration