FlexNet Inventory Agent Status

IT Asset Management (Cloud)

The FlexNet Inventory Agent Status page shows you all of your inventory devices that have been identified as having the FlexNet 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.

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.

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 FlexNet 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 FlexNet Inventory Agent that should be installed on the device was specified.

Policy specifies

The version of the FlexNet 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: This value may be blank because:

• The device is recently discovered – the operating system can only occasionally be populated during first discovery, and is often backfilled once inventory is returned for this device.
• The device is a VM host that is a hardware frame that may not be running its own operating system. In this case, the computer Name field is set to a serial number associated with the hardware (because, without an operating system, there is no host name). In fact, no inventory of any kind is possible without an operating system, so IT Asset Management synthesizes the VM host record from common data reported by its guest VMs. The virtual machines in these cases may typically be partitions like:
  • LPARs running on IBM PowerPC servers
  • Solaris zones on either x86 or SPARC architectures
  • nPar or vPar partitions running on HP Integrity servers.

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

Version reported

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

The inventory process generates the value of this field.