Getting Started with IT Asset Management

Explains how to manage your account preferences, use lists, and create views.

Describes how you can use IT Asset Management to collect discovery and inventory information about devices in your organization from a number of sources.

Explains how to manage applications in your enterprise. Each application is assigned a status of either installed, unmanaged, ignored, deferred, or managed.

Explains how you use IT Asset Management to record the details of obtaining hardware and software. It records all purchases, the contracts you may have (including software maintenance or purchasing agreements) and any payments associated with those contracts, and all the vendors you deal with.

Describes how to configure the different kinds of groups within your enterprise (such as corporate units, locations, cost centers, and categories), and how to create a hierarchical structure that represents your enterprise. You can then assign computers, users, assets, licenses, purchases, and contracts to those groups.

Describes how administrators can perform various system-level functions such as creating accounts, setting system defaults, and configuring system settings.

Learn about how you can use IT Asset Management for SAP Applications features to maintain and optimize SAP licenses.

Provides additional information on various warnings and errors that may appear in the IT Asset Management interface.

This document provides a structured reference to the different ways of deploying and using the Inventory Agent and its various components, as well as command lines and preference settings for some of the code agents that are deployed to the adopted device. You may also find the introductory matrix comparing the results of various inventory sources to be helpful.

This reference guide covers standard adapters available for the system that manipulate data from external systems into a format usable by IT Asset Management; and some connectors that manage somewhat simpler imports. It also includes how to use the Inventory Adapter Studio.

Collects a variety of reference materials, including:

Provides a working reference to the database tables and columns for IT Asset Management. This is particularly useful if you want to prepare (or specify) customizations, or to understand more as you prepare custom adapters.