All Inventory
| • | All inventory devices with a status of either Active or Ignored |
| • | Devices linked to retired or disposed assets. |
Exceptions
The following devices are not displayed on this page:
| • | Inventory devices that you have deliberately deleted from an inventory device listing (such as this page), and that were not linked to an asset record at that time. |
| • | Inventory devices that you attempted to delete (or which disappeared from all current inventory sources), but which may have historical impact on the calculation of points for IBM PVU licenses. These devices have a status of Archived while they are required for recalculation of PVU points over time, and are automatically deleted when they are no longer relevant. While archived, they are available in the Archived Inventory page. |
| • | Remote devices, which are not devices that can be inventoried, but incomplete 'placeholder' devices created to track remote access such as through a Citrix XenApp server. Remote device records are available by navigating to Inventory > Virtual Devices > Remote Devices. |
| • | Virtual desktop templates, which are also not true inventory devices, but are available through Inventory > Virtual Devices > Virtual Desktop Templates. |
For listed inventory devices, an alert flag next to the device name indicates the number of issues associated with the device. Hover over the flag for a tooltip summary of the issue(s).
If you decide to manage your hardware assets through IT Asset Management, you can link asset records (create new or link existing) to their respective inventory device records.
Duplicated Inventory Device Records
In general, inventory devices are identified by the combination of their domain name and their computer name, as reported in inventory. However, it is possible (if undesirable) for your environment to include devices with the same name within the same domain. This can be more prevalent for non-Windows devices, which may report no domain at all. These duplicated devices may have quite different software inventory, and even hardware attributes may be different. To prevent the imported records with matching names overwriting each another, the Inventory Agent (from version 13.4, released with IT Asset Management version 2019 R1.2) marks each device with a unique, hidden AgentID. This allows the inventory devices to be distinguished despite their matching names, with the hardware and software correctly associated with the right device – provided of course that the Last inventory source is FlexNet Manager Suite.
Tip:The AgentID functionality works with all of:
| • | The locally installed Inventory agent |
| • | Zero-footprint inventory gathering managed by an inventory beacon |
| • | The lightweight FlexNet Inventory Scanner |
| • | The core ndtrack component deployed and managed through third-party methods. |
Therefore, if this listing (or any other listing of inventory devices) shows, in inventory gathered from IT Asset Management, more than one device with the same computer name in the same domain (possibly with differences in installed applications or associated user), the starting point for correction is to check your environment for the devices with the same computer name, and rename as appropriate to make them unique and more easily identifiable. Another benefit of the AgentID is that it allows correct matching of devices even through a name change, so that the next inventory import and license reconciliation corrects the device name in the existing records.
It is best practice to make the computer name for each device unique, since other, third-party inventory sources may not be able to distinguish duplicate device names, and may cause inventory records to flip back and forth depending on which duplicate device reported most recently.
Actions
On this page, you can perform the following actions on inventory device records:
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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. |
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Create an inventory device |
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View or change the properties of an inventory device |
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Multi-edit shared properties of several inventory devices |
Devices you select must have the same value for Inventory device type and also for Compliance status, and then you can click Open to show their shared properties. |
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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. |
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Ignore an inventory device |
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Activate an inventory device |
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Ignore alerts for an inventory device |
See Ignoring Alerts. |
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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 selected inventory device record. You may also select multiple inventory devices, as long as you want to create the same kind of asset record for all selected devices. Note:The Create an asset button is disabled when all your selected inventory devices are already linked to asset records (check the Linked asset column). |
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Link an inventory device to an asset |
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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. |
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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 All 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.