Most organizations will have some form of network-or resource-monitoring system in place, such as Nagios, SolarWinds, Splunk, or vRealize Operations Manager. The information monitored and collected by these systems will be useful for the current state assessments. The SMEs should be asked whether there is monitoring in place and for access to the data collected by these systems.

Many vendors also perform free infrastructure assessments. Often, these free assessments are not thorough enough to provide the details necessary for a complete current state assessment, but they can provide some good information. Again, the project SMEs will be asked whether any type of assessments have been done.