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title: Complete the remediation task for asset attestation in the Hardware Asset Workspace
description: As an asset manager or inventory administrator, complete the open remediation task that was created when your employee denied ownership of the assigned serialized hardware asset.
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classification: hardware-asset-management
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# Complete the remediation task for asset attestation in the Hardware Asset Workspace

As an asset manager or inventory administrator, complete the open remediation task that was created when your employee denied ownership of the assigned serialized hardware asset.

## Before you begin

Role required: asset or inventory\_admin

## Procedure

1.  View the list of asset attestations.

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**Inventory view**

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1.  Navigate to **Workspaces** &gt; **Hardware Asset Workspace** &gt; **Inventory**.
2.  Select the **Asset attestations** tab.


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**Asset operations view**

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1.  Navigate to **Workspaces** &gt; **Hardware Asset Workspace** &gt; **Asset operations**.
2.  From the Attestation list, select the **Attestations**.


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</table>2.  Select the asset attestation record for which you want to complete the open asset remediation task.

3.  Select the **Remediation tasks** tab.

4.  Select the remediation task that's in the Open state.

5.  In the **Work notes** field of the Asset Task Details form, provide comments related to the asset remediation task.

6.  Select **Close Task**.


## Result

-   The State of the asset changes from **In use** to **Missing**.
-   The **Assigned to** field on the asset record is empty.

**Parent Topic:**[Audit your hardware assets by using Asset Attestation](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-asset-management/hardware-asset-management/audit-hardware-assets-attestation.md)