Three new types of hardware assets added

FlexNet Manager Suite version 2021 R1.1

In FlexNet Manager Suite, a hardware asset record can have any one of multiple asset types, and those types fall into two classes:

• Device types — so called because these assets may be linked to inventory devices
• Non-device types — (such as a desk or telephone), which cannot.

This release brings three additional non-device types that you can use to categorize your hardware assets:

• Data Storage
• Mainframe
• Network Appliance.

At first glance, the Mainframe type may seem misplaced: after all, it is a type of computer, like laptops and desktops. However, the FlexNet inventory agent cannot collect inventory from mainframe computers, so that this is correctly categorized as a 'non-device' type of asset.