Properties for Inventory Devices on Apply Allocations and Exemptions Page
This page displays the following columns for inventory devices. Note that some of the columns display properties of hardware asset records, and are populated only for inventory devices that are linked to assets.
Some columns are displayed by default whereas others can be displayed through the column chooser. For displaying columns and other UI options, see the topics under Managing Columns in a Table.
Column name | Notes |
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Asset status |
For devices that are linked to hardware assets, this describes where the
asset is within the asset life-cycle. May display any of the following values:
Editable in the General tab of the asset properties. |
Assigned user |
The user assigned to this inventory device. This assignment overrides the Calculated user. Editable in the Assigned field in Ownership tab of the inventory device properties. |
Calculated user | The name of the most frequent
user of this inventory device, over the previous 10 inventory collections. This value is
calculated as follows:
IT Asset Management generates the value of this field.
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Category |
The category of this device. IT Asset Management enables you to create customized categories to group inventory devices logically. These categories are additional to Inventory device type and Device role categorization. For example, you can create categories to differentiate database servers, network servers, or firewalls. The custom categories have no impact on license consumption. Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties. |
Chassis number |
The manufacturer's chassis number reported for the device. Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). Not available for Mobile Device and Virtual Machine inventory device types. |
Clock speed (MHz) |
The maximum clock speed (in MHz) of the processor that is installed in the inventory device. Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). If the value is gathered from inventory, it cannot be edited; however, it can be overridden. |
Cluster |
The name of the cluster that the VM host belongs to. Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties of the virtual host (for manually-created records). Available only for inventory devices of type Virtual Machine. |
Compliance status |
The compliance status of an inventory device. It can have any of the
following values:
The value is calculated by IT Asset Management and can be manually set on the General tab of the inventory device properties. |
Connection name |
The name of the connection through which IT Asset Management received the last inventory for this inventory device. |
Cores |
The total number of processor cores available in a physical inventory device; or the number of cores assigned to an inventory device that is a virtual machine. Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, the number of Cores can be manually overridden in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (see Hardware Tab). |
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. |
Created |
The date when this inventory record was created in IT Asset Management.
Tip: New inventory device records are created during a full import to the
compliance database, as new inventory is identified. Therefore it's
quite possible to have a creation date that is later than the inventory date,
with the difference being due to scheduling, such as the scheduling of imports
from third-party tools, or delays between the upload of FlexNet inventory and
the full import and compliance calculations (for example, if your full imports
are scheduled weekly, or the like).
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Creation method |
The method used to create the inventory device record. The possible
values:
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Device name |
The name of the inventory device. This field can have any one of the
following kinds of values:
Important: Do not use a business adapter (or manual edits)
to change the name of the inventory device that has been returned from
inventory. This may cause creation of duplicate device records, and in any case
will be overwritten by future inventory imports. For example, if you initially
name new hardware purchases with the serial number while preparing for
deployment, update the correct device name before collecting inventory.
By default, the table of allocations and exemptions is sorted in ascending alphabetical order on this value. |
Disk (GB) |
The total space of all hard drives installed on the inventory device, in Gigabytes. Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only. |
Display adapters |
The total number of display adapters installed in the inventory device. Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only. |
Domain name |
The name of the domain to which the computing device
belongs.
Tip: Records fabricated for special purposes display
special values:
Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties for manually created records. The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only. |
Hard drives |
The total number of hard drives installed in the inventory device. Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only. |
Host |
The name of the host server where this VM is a guest. Editable in the VM
properties tab of the inventory device properties.
Note: As long as incoming
inventory does not identify the host for this virtual machine, your manual entry is
preserved (that is, a null value in inventory never overwrites a manually-entered value).
However, once inventory returns a known host for this virtual machine, your value is
overwritten with the data from inventory. Should it happen that future inventory again
returns no value for the host name, the previous inventory value in this field is cleared,
matching the current inventory data.
Available only for inventory devices of type Virtual Machine. |
Hosted in |
Shows whether the inventory device is on-premises (the default, meaning the device is within your enterprise), or in a cloud operated by a particular service provider. For some cloud service providers (like AWS and Azure), the Hosted in value is set automatically through inventory. For other cloud service providers, you must make a selection manually. Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties. |
Hosted in cloud |
Indicates No if the inventory device is hosted on-premises (within your enterprise). Indicates Yes if the inventory device is hosted in the cloud by a cloud service provider. Most inventory devices hosted in the cloud are virtual machines; but this value is available for all inventory devices, because some cloud service providers also rent entire machines (for example, AWS provides dedicated hosts and bare metal instances). This is a convenience column for grouping/filtering inventory devices that are hosted in the cloud. The name of the cloud service provider for each inventory device is available in the Hosted in column. |
Inventory chassis type |
The chassis type for an inventory device, as reported by the inventory process. Note: The following chassis types are
considered portable computers eligible to be covered by a license's right of the
second use:
This read-only value cannot be edited, however for the purposes of license calculations, you can override its value with the Assigned chassis type setting in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties. |
Inventory device type |
Specifies the type of the inventory device, which may be any of the
following values:
Editable in the Inventory device type field in the General tab of the inventory device properties. The value may be overwritten by incoming inventory. |
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. |
Last inventory date |
The date when the most recent inventory information was collected by the Last inventory source for this inventory device. The inventory process generates the value of this field. |
Last inventory source |
If you have multiple overlapping inventory sources
that report on the same device, it is possible for some inventory details to
come from one source and other details from another source. This column
identifies the most recent source of inventory for this device, so that the
value may change as uploads from different sources are imported.
Tip: Although this inventory source provided the most recent inventory
import, it does not follow that every recorded hardware property value came from
this source. One of your inventory sources may be nominated as 'primary', and
any values imported from the primary source cannot be updated by other inventory
sources (although those non-primary sources can fill the gaps and update
properties that are missing from your primary inventory
source).
The
inventory source names are system-provided, and cannot be modified. Most values are
self-explanatory; some less obvious ones include:
Tip: If you have custom inventory adapters, entries for these may
also appear in this column as appropriate.
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Last logged on user |
The name of the user that was discovered to be the last logged on user on this device. |
Linked asset |
The name of an asset, if any, that the device is linked to.
Tip: If
the status of the linked asset is set to Retired (in the
asset properties), the linked inventory device remains visible in the All
Inventory list, but is suppressed in the Out-Of-Date
Inventory list, regardless of how long it is since the device reported
inventory.
The link between an inventory device and an asset is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties. |
Location |
The location within your enterprise that is responsible for the device. Editable in the Ownership tab of the inventory device properties. |
MAC address |
The Media Access Control (MAC) address of the inventory device. If a
device has multiple network interface cards, this field displays a comma-separated
list of MAC addresses.
Tip: This field is deliberately empty for
discovered device records created automatically by the Amazon connector to
represent installations of Oracle Database within Amazon Relational Database
Service (RDS).
Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). Not available for Mobile Device, Remote Device or VDI Template inventory device types. For inventory devices, the value cannot be edited once inventory has been returned. |
Manufacturer |
The manufacturer of the inventory device.
Tip: If the device
is a virtual machine (such as Linux KVM), this column may display the publisher
of the software that is running the VM.
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Model |
The manufacturer’s model name or number for this device. Editable in the Model field in the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). If the value is gathered from inventory, it cannot be edited, but it can be overridden by entering a new value in the Overridden field in General tab of the inventory device properties. The original value continues to display on the General tab, alongside the overridden value, and may be restored at any time. |
Network cards |
The total number of network cards installed in a physical inventory device; or the number of network cards accessible by the virtual machine. Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records). Not editable for records created from imported inventory. |
Operating system |
The operating system running on this device.
Tip: This value may
be blank because:
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Overridden |
Indicates whether the operator has manually changed one or more properties discovered in inventory, or if the inventory details are unchanged for this inventory device. |
Partial number of processors |
The equivalent number of full-time 'processors' set by the time-sharing controls on the hardware console. These 'processors' are vCPUs, and this corresponds to the maximum number of cores that may be used by the virtual machine. Some virtualization technologies (such as on IBM's AIX operating system) report this setting in inventory. You may override an incorrect inventory value for this field. Populated and (by default) updated on virtual machines by inventory imports, this field in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (only for virtual machines) can be overridden with a manually entered value. An overridden value is no longer updated by incoming inventory. |
Pool |
The name given to the pool of resources to which this virtual machine belongs. |
Processor type |
The type of processor installed in the inventory device. Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, this value can be manually overwritten in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties (see Hardware Tab). |
Processors |
The total number of processors installed in a physical inventory device, or logical processors assigned to a virtual machine. Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, this field in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties can be overridden with a manually entered value (see Hardware Tab). Overridden values are no longer updated by incoming inventory. |
RAM (GB) |
The size of Random Access Memory (RAM) installed in the inventory device, in gigabytes. For manually-created records, this is editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties. The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only. For virtual machines, the value is editable in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties. |
Role |
The role assigned to the inventory device, such as Development, Test, and Production. Device roles (where permitted by the product use rights on a license) can exempt devices from consuming entitlements on a license to which they are (and remain) attached. For example, some license agreements may grant an exemption for devices used exclusively for testing. For more details, see Allocations and Exemptions. Editable in Device role field in the General tab of the inventory device properties. |
Serial number |
The serial number of the device, attempting to uniquely identify either
the hardware (for a stand-alone device) or the virtualization container (for a
virtual machine), as reported in inventory.
Tip: This displays
Flexera SaaS Manager with a numerical suffix in
the special case where the inventory device is a dummy record created for
linking with imports through your Flexera One SaaS Management connector.
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Service pack |
The service pack number or ID reported by the operating system. For manually-created records, this is editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties. The value is overwritten (permanently) by incoming inventory, and thereafter is read-only. |
Sockets |
The total number of mounting sockets for central processing units (CPUs) available in a physical inventory device. For a Virtual machine, this may be the number of virtual sockets assigned to the VM. Note: This field records the total number of
CPU mounting sockets, regardless of whether the sockets are empty or have CPU
chips mounted in them.
Editable in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties. If it is not available from your inventory, or if the value is inaccurate, you can permanently override with a manual value. |
Status |
Indicates the current state of a device. It can have any of the
following values:
Provided that the inventory device has not [yet] been linked to an asset record, this value is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties (although Awaiting Inventory is no longer available once inventory has been collected for the device, and Archived can never be set manually). |
Threads |
The total number of threads available in a physical inventory device; or the number of logical processors (virtual processors in a virtual machine, or threads assigned to a partition) assigned to an inventory device that is a virtual machine. Populated and (by default) updated by inventory imports, this field in the Hardware tab of the inventory device properties can be overridden with a manually entered value (see Hardware Tab). |
VM name |
The name of the virtual machine that is recognized by the host server. This value is visible in the properties of the VM host, in the Virtual Machines tab, in the VM name column. |
VM type |
The type of the virtual machine. This may be one of:
Editable in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties for the virtual machine (for manually-created records). The value may be overwritten by incoming inventory. |
VMs | The number of virtual machines hosted by the inventory device (only available when the Inventory device type is VM Host). This is the count of virtual machines on the Virtual Machines tab of the properties of the VM host. |
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