Inventory Agent Status

The Inventory > FlexNet Inventory Agent Status page (in the Inventory group) shows you all of your inventory devices that have been identified as having the Inventory Agent installed or as being included in the list of the devices that have been targeted by a discovery and inventory rule that includes the option of adoption. The list excludes any inventory devices that have been ignored.

You can filter the records by the selecting a date where the version was reported on or after.

This page displays the following columns (listed alphabetically). Some columns are displayed by default and others can be displayed through the column chooser. To manage columns and other UI options, see the topics under Managing Columns in a Table.

Properties Listed on the Inventory Agent Status Page

Property

Description

Corporate unit

The corporate unit responsible for the inventory device.

Editable in the Ownership tab of the inventory device properties.

Cost center

The cost center responsible for all costs incurred for this inventory device.

Editable in the Ownership tab of the inventory device properties.

Device Name

The name of the device. The compliance calculation updates this field with the machine name returned in inventory (matched by serial number).

IP address

The IP address of the inventory device. For inventory devices with multiple IP addresses (for example, those with multiple network cards), a comma-separated list (up to 256 characters) is shown. IP addresses in the IPv6 address family are not reported in FlexNet inventory for devices running UNIX-like operating systems.

Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties.

Last reported version

The version of the Inventory Agent installed on the device.

The inventory process generates the value of this field.

Location

The location within your enterprise that is responsible for the device.

Editable in the Ownership tab of the inventory device properties.

Policy effective date

The the date that the version of the Inventory Agent that should be installed on the device was specified.

Policy specifies

The version of the Inventory Agent that should be installed on the device as specified by the Version to deploy setting in the Inventory agent for automatic deployment section on the Inventory settings page.

Operating system

The operating system running on this device.

Tip:Under certain conditions, this value may be blank. For more information, see Conditions When Operating System Value of Inventory is Blank.

Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records).

Version reported

The date when the version of the Inventory Agent installed on the device was last collected.

The inventory process generates the value of this field.

Tip:Any custom properties that you have added for this object are also available through the column chooser. Like other properties, you can also use these properties for filtering and grouping records on this page.