Inventory Device Properties / Virtual Desktop Templates Tab

IT Asset Management displays the Virtual desktop templates tab on the Inventory Device Properties page when you select Computer as Inventory Device Type. A virtual desktop template is a catalog of software applications with user groups that are entitled to access those applications in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. A virtual desktop template is a method to track software usage details in a VDI environment. IT Asset Management gets the software usage details from the template and user details from the Active Directory to track the usage of remote applications by the users, through the inventory devices.

The following inventory device properties (listed alphabetically) are available on this tab.

Virtual Desktop Template Tab Properties

Property	Description
Access mode	The method that this device uses to access a software application. This field can have one of the following values: • Blank—When there is an allocation without any supportive installation record from the imported inventory. • App-V—For a virtualized application delivered through Microsoft App-V • Local—The application has been installed locally on the inventory device. • XenApp (now known as Citrix Virtual Apps) — The application has been accessed remotely via a Citrix XenApp server. • XenDesktop (now known as Virtual Desktops)—The application has been installed on a virtual machine in your VDI infrastructure, and associated with this inventory device because the primary end-user has accessed the software through this inventory device. If your virtual machine image includes the Inventory Agent, this inventory device may have been identified as the end-point from which the end user accessed the VDI. In other circumstances, the end-user may have used a remote device such as a home computer or mobile device that cannot be inventoried; but as the end-user is associated with this inventory device, the application use can be recorded here for license consumption calculations. IT Asset Management generates the value of this field. Only available for Computer, Virtual Machine, and VM Host inventory device types.
VDI template name	Whenever the assigned or calculated user for this device accesses a virtual desktop instance, IT Asset Management determines the VDI template from which that virtual desktop instance was spawned. That VDI template is listed here. IT Asset Management generates the value of this field. Only available for Computer or Virtual Machine inventory device types.