Active Inventory

The Inventory > Inventory > Active Inventory page displays either the newly-reported inventory records or the inventory records that are linked to installed or In Storage assets and managed by IT Asset Management. The applications installed on managed devices always consume license entitlements.

Tip:This listing does not include any remote devices, which are not inventoried devices, but incomplete 'placeholder' devices created to track remote access such as through a Citrix Virtual Apps server. Remote device records are available by navigating to Inventory > Virtual Devices > Remote Devices. Similarly, virtual desktop templates are excluded here but are available through Inventory > Virtual Devices > Virtual Desktop Templates.

An alert flag next to the device name indicates the number of issues associated with this device. A device record may be transitioned between different inventory pages based on the following events:

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If the status of the asset linked to an inventory device changes to Retired or Disposed, the inventory record disappears from this page and appears on the Ignored Inventory and Retired or Disposed Asset Inventory pages. The applications installed on the Retired or Disposed assets do not consume licenses.

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If you manually ignore a device record, it disappears from this page and appears on the Ignored Inventory page.

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All ignored devices are also listed on the All Inventory page.

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If you manually remove the linked asset from a device, the device record also appears on the Inventory Without Assets page.

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If the device has not reported inventory for the set duration (configured on the Out-Of-Date Inventory page), the device record also appears on the Out-Of-Date Inventory page.

On this page, you can perform the following actions on inventory devices:

Active Inventory Actions

Action	Description
Search for an inventory device	For more information about using lists, filters, and other UI options, see the topics under Using Lists in IT Asset Management.
Create an inventory device	See Create an Inventory Device.
View or change the properties of an inventory device	See Create an Inventory Device.
Ignore alerts for an inventory device	See Ignoring Alerts.
Delete an inventory device	See Deleting an Inventory Record. Note:Deleting a record updates the database immediately, as expected. However, instead of being deleted immediately, devices still required for those calculations are given an Archived status (and immediately moved to the Archived Inventory page). For more information, see About Deleting an Inventory Device.
Ignore an inventory device	See Ignoring an Inventory Record.
Create an asset	To create an asset linked to an inventory record, select the inventory record, click Create an asset, and select the type of asset. The asset record is automatically created and linked to the inventory device record.
Link to asset	See Linking an Inventory Record to an Asset Record.
Remove the linked asset	Select the inventory record and click Remove link to remove the linked asset from this inventory device. This step is mandatory to ignore an inventory device.
Create a saved view	The Save view as feature of IT Asset Management enables you to create customized views of a page by saving the applied user interface settings. For more information, see Creating Saved Views.

Properties Displayed on the Active Inventory Page

For detailed information on the properties displayed in this list, see Inventory Listings Property Reference.

Note:Most lists in IT Asset Management only show a selection of the properties in the underlying database. Some columns are displayed by default and others can be displayed using the column chooser control, including any custom properties that you have added. For information on using the column chooser, see Managing Columns in a Table.