Hosts Tab

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The Hosts tab on the Cluster Properties page lists the details of virtual hosts that are a part of this cluster. A cluster can have multiple hosts, each with one or more virtual machines hosted on it. This page enables you to perform the following actions:

Search for virtual hosts: For more information about using lists, filters, and other UI options, see the topics under Using Lists in IT Asset Management.
Add virtual hosts to a cluster: See Assigning a Host to a Cluster.
Remove a virtual host from a cluster: See Removing Hosts from a Cluster
View virtual host details: You can select any virtual host and click Open to view its properties. For more information about inventory device properties, see Inventory Device Properties.

The following properties are available for display, both in the list of hosts and in the table of search results. Some of these properties are displayed by default whereas others are available through the Choose columns option. Here are the fields on this tab, in alphabetical order:

Table 1. Properties listed in the Hosts tab of the Cluster Properties page:
Field	Description
Asset name	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the asset properties), the linked inventory device remains visible in the All Inventory list, but is suppressed in the Out-Of-Date Inventory list, regardless of how long it is since the device reported inventory.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.
Asset status	The compliance status of an inventory device. It can have any of the following values: `Changed` — Indicates a change in the compliance status of an inventory device. This value is changed automatically when the following conditions are met: The inventory device has a linked asset. You have defined the device compliance settings to track any changes in the hardware properties of this device. There is a change in the hardware properties for which the device compliance settings have been defined. This change can be manual or a result of a new inventory import. `Compliant` — The inventory details reported in the last inventory import match those of previous imports, or any changes to those details have been approved. For details about reviewing or approving changes to assets, see Viewing and Accepting the Changes to a Device Asset `New` — The default value for all newly imported devices. This value is not changed until there is a change in the hardware configuration or an asset is linked to this device. `Not tracked` — Indicates that the device is no longer tracked for compliance. This may happen when an inventory import leads to a duplicate device record with some change in its properties. The value is calculated by IT Asset Management and can be manually set on the General tab of the inventory device 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: If there is only one primary user linked to the inventory device, this user is recorded If there are multiple primary users linked to the inventory device, the most frequently logged in user is recorded If there is no primary user associated with the inventory device, the last user to logon is recorded. The value of this field is automatically generated by IT Asset Management. Not available when any of the following is true: You are manually creating a new record for an inventory device The inventory device is a VDI template There is no inventory source (or the inventory source is `Manual`) reporting this inventory device.
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.
Clock speed	The maximum clock speed (in MHz) of the processor that is installed in the inventory device. Enter the clock speed of the processor installed in the inventory device (for manually-created records). To adjust the value reported by inventory, click Override and enter or spin up the corrected value. The overridden value is static and will not be updated by future inventory gathering. The value gathered by inventory continues to display alongside the overridden value and may be restored by deleting the overridden value.
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 Corporate Units page under the Enterprise tab.
Cost center	The cost center responsible for all costs incurred for this inventory device. Editable in the Cost Centers page under the Enterprise tab.
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). Not editable.
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. Not editable for existing inventory devices.
Domain name	The name of the domain to which the computing device belongs. Tip: Records fabricated for special purposes display special values: A dummy device record created for imports through your connector to Flexera One SaaS Management displays `flexera.com` A record representing an Oracle Database running in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) shows the full DNS alias (excluding the actual machine name), such as `clv8xj7busyg.eu-west-1.rds.amazonaws.com` 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. Not editable for existing inventory devices.
Inventory chassis type	The chassis type for an inventory device, as reported by the inventory process. This value cannot be edited, however you may override it with the Assigned chassis type setting.
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 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: `Data Platform` — The inventory was imported from Flexera Normalize (previously BDNA Normalize, part of BDNA Data Platform) `Flexera SaaS Manager` — This is a dummy device created for linking with imports through your Flexera One SaaS Management connector `ManageSoft` — The inventory was collected by legacy versions of the FlexNet Inventory Agent, and saved in a separate inventory database `Manual` — You created this inventory device record manually, and no matching inventory has been received yet. `SMS` — The inventory was imported from Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (previously Microsoft SCCM). `Tivoli Endpoint Manager` — Inventory was imported from IBM Big Fix, or one of its earlier renamings (IBM Endpoint Manager, Tivoli Endpoint Manager). Tip: If you have custom inventory adapters, entries for these may also appear in this column as appropriate. Not editable.
Last logged on user	The name of the user that was discovered to be the last logged on user on this device. Click the linked full name to open the General tab of the user properties pages, and for details see General Tab. Not available when any of the following is true: You are manually creating a new record for an inventory device The inventory device is a VDI template The inventory device is a UNIX-like device other than one running macOS The inventory device is a Windows device that is not a member of an Active Directory domain, or cannot access the domain controller The Windows device is an old version, earlier than Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008 There is no inventory source (or the inventory source is `Manual`) reporting this inventory device.
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).
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. Editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties (for manually-created records).
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.
Name	The name of the inventory device. This field can have any one of the following kinds of values: The first part of the full DNS name The NetBIOS name The SNMP name of a computing device The IP address (but only if the device is a virtual host) `Flexera SaaS Manager` if this is a dummy device record created for imports from your Flexera One SaaS Management connector The name of the database, if this is a record created to represent an Oracle Database running on an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). 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. Editable in the Name field in the General tab of the inventory device properties (if mapped to an inventory device). The compliance calculation updates this field with the machine name returned in inventory (matched by serial number).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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. For manually-created inventory device records, this value is editable in the General tab of the inventory device properties. This value is not editable for records created or updated from collected inventory.
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. 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.
Source	The details of this host were gathered from one of the following sources: `Automatic` — Discovered in incoming inventory `Manual` — Manually created by a user `VM Host` — Discovered on the VM host. Not editable.
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).
Total disk space	The total volume of hard drives installed in 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.

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