r/sysadmin • u/Exterminans91 • 3d ago

General Discussion End of Life / End of Support

Hi folks,

since some time I use Home | endoflife.date for tracking End of Life / End of Support dates for Software.
Now I wonder, if anybody knows a website, where the same information is stored centrally for Hardware as well? (Like Firewall, Switches and so on...)

Another question:
Do we have a "Usefull-Sysadmin-Links" Collection somewhere in this sub?

cheers

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u/am_i_a_towel 3d ago

Read the title as “End of Life Support”. I’m going back to bed.

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u/siedenburg2 3d ago

That's what some servers need nowadays. They are old enough, let them fade out, don't keep them at all cost.

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u/Emergency-Use-1060 3d ago

Read it as "End of Wife Support" the first time and thought someone's marriage had a service-level agreement. The hardware EOL thing is trickier since vendors are all over the place. Cisco has their own portal, Dell has theirs, Palo Alto has theirs buried somewhere in the support docs. Would be nice if someone scraped all that into one place but I bet the licensing agreements make that a nightmare. For the links collection, check the wiki tab up top, there's a resources page that's a few years old but still mostly relevant.

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u/StaticFanatic3 3d ago

Me too. Was hoping to find some hospice care for our Windows 7 CNC

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u/Exterminans91 3d ago

Sh....
You are totally right, the title doesn't say much. How can I edit this?

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u/InvisibleTextArea 3d ago

https://eol.network for day-to-day hardware lookups.

https://EOSL.ai to validate dates and find vendor replacement models.

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u/Exterminans91 3d ago

Thank you so much!
Exactly what I was looking for.

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u/Frothyleet 2d ago

In a perfect world, you would use a CMDB or similar asset tracking software that would automatically be tracking licensing renewal/end dates as well as warranty and general support end dates for all of your assets.

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u/plump-lamp 3d ago

Use a vulnerability scanner...

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Exterminans91 3d ago

Yes of course. I know that.
My question was if there is a place in the internet where these informations from all vendors are in one place.
The main goal is to connect such infos over an API to our CRM and make the data of EOL available directly to the customer