Comparison of Sources
- A comparison of the inventory sources that are supported by IT Asset Management and Data Platform v5
- For data sources fully supported by both, a summary of the inventory gaps (some of which may affect compliance calculations) with data imported from each source either directly into IT Asset Management, or firstly into Data Platform and then imported from Data Platform v5 into IT Asset Management.
Supported inventory sources
- "Y" when either product offers out-of-the-box support for imports from that source
- A blank in either product's column when the data source is not supported
- "C" when either product has a custom extractor/adapter available to collect data from the source and import it into the connecting product.
Inventory source | IT Asset Management | Data Platform v5 |
---|---|---|
Symantec IT Management Suite (formerly Altiris) |
Y |
C |
App-V Standalone |
Y |
|
BMC BladeLogic Client Automation (previously Marimba) |
Y |
C |
BMC Discovery (previously ADDM) |
Y |
Y |
EdgeSight for Citrix Virtual Apps (previously XenApp EdgeSight) |
Y |
|
Citrix XenApp server agent (for Citrix Virtual Apps) |
Y |
|
FlexNet Inventory Manager (previously ManageSoft) |
Y |
|
FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications |
Y |
|
HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Inventory (DDMI) |
Y |
C |
HPE Universal Discovery (HP-UD) |
Y |
Y |
IBM BigFix Platform (previously Tivoli Endpoint Manager) |
Y |
Y |
IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) or HCL BigFix Inventory (see note 1 and 2) |
Y |
|
JAMF Pro (previously Casper) |
C |
Y |
Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync |
Y |
|
Microsoft Office 365 |
Y |
|
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (previously Microsoft SCCM or SMS) |
Y |
Y |
Salesforce |
Y |
|
SAP (through FlexNet Manager for SAP Applications) |
Y |
|
ServiceNow | (see note 3) |
Y |
SolarWinds Orion |
C |
Y |
Symantec IT Management Suite (formerly Altiris) |
Y |
C |
Tanium Asset |
C |
Y |
- For the BigFix Inventory source type, the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) adapter must be selected. No BigFix Inventory source type is available.
- For imports from IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT), only applications with IBM as the Publisher are recognized by the Application Recognition Library. For imports from HCL BigFix Inventory, applications from all publishers may be recognized.
- IT Asset Management does provide for integration with ServiceNow, but in this case it is not importing raw inventory. ServiceNow is regarded as a source of business data rather than inventory data for IT Asset Management.
Inventory gaps by import path
- The middle column identifies inventory gaps when IT Asset Management imports inventory data directly from each source
- The final column identifies inventory gaps if the inventory is first imported into Normalize v5 (within Data Platform), and subsequently imported from there into IT Asset Management.
Data source | Direct import to IT Asset Management | Import through Data Platform |
---|---|---|
BMC Discovery (previously ADDM) |
No inventory gaps. |
All virtualization data is missing. |
HPE Universal Discovery (HP-UD) |
No inventory gaps. |
Advanced virtualization data missing (see note below). |
IBM BigFix (previously Tivoli Endpoint Manager) |
All virtualization data is missing. |
All virtualization data is missing. |
Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (previously Microsoft SCCM or SMS) |
All virtualization data is missing. |
Advanced virtualization data missing. |
- Simple virtualization calculations for technologies like VMware ESX and Hyper-V — these require only the host/guest relationships to be tracked
- Advanced virtualization calculations for hardware partitioning technologies like HP-UX vPar, IBM LPAR, and Solaris zones — these require tracking of greater detail, such as partial processors and processor pool information. Information about clusters and host affinity (and the like) is also included in the advanced class.
IT Asset Management (Cloud)
Current