Ownership Tab

IT Asset Management (Cloud)

The Ownership tab displays the details about the ownership of this remote device by enterprise groups, including up to one each from location, corporate unit, and cost center. This tab also displays the last logged on user, the assigned user, and the calculated user for the remote device.

These settings are mainly useful for record keeping. These settings:

  • Have no impact on compliance calculations
  • Do not limit how the remote device can be allocated to individual users
  • Do not limit how the remote device can be assigned to other enterprise groups.
    Note: A remote device may not be able to consume a particular license until it is a part of a particular enterprise group. You can define these settings in the Restrictions tab of the license properties. Therefore, changing the settings on this Ownership tab may alter the list of licenses visible to those operators who have restricted access rights. For more information about license restrictions, Restrictions Tab.
For more information about using lists, filters, and other UI options, see the topics under Using Lists in IT Asset Management. The following table displays the ownership and user properties in an alphabetical order:
Remember: Remote device properties are read only.
Table 1. Properties listed on the Ownership tab
Field Description
Assigned
The user assigned to this device. This assignment overrides the Calculated user.
Tip: Other than for exceptional reasons, it is best practice to leave this value blank, so that the Calculated user (derived from inventory collections) can drive compliance calculations as intended. If your purpose is to set ownership for the hardware, consider setting the Assigned user on the asset record (which does not affect compliance calculations), and ensuring that these two values for asset and inventory device are not synchronized (go to the IT Asset Management Settings General page, and on the Assets tab, ensure that the check box Synchronize assigned user in device and asset properties is cleared). However, you might need to use this setting on the inventory device for special reasons, such as resolving users who have multiple login accounts.
Calculated

The name of the user that was the most frequent user of this device, over the previous 10 inventory collections. Click to open the General tab of the user properties pages, and for details see General Tab.

Corporate unit
The corporate unit responsible for the device.
Tip: For virtual machines, edits to this value are rejected (and the previous value restored) when it is inherited from the host on which this VM is a guest. Inheritance is controlled by the system setting for inventory called Update virtual machine cost center and corporate unit to match host properties. (For remote devices, all properties are always read-only.)
IT Asset Management enables you to create a hierarchy of corporate units based on the structure of your enterprise. For example, you can have Example Enterprises at the top level, dividing into business groups at the next level, and then divisions such as Marketing and Engineering within those.
Cost center
The cost center responsible for all costs incurred for this device.
Tip: For virtual machines, edits to this value are rejected (and the previous value restored) when it is inherited from the host on which this VM is a guest. Inheritance is controlled by the system setting for inventory called Update virtual machine cost center and corporate unit to match host properties. (For remote devices, all properties are always read-only.)
IT Asset Management enables you to create a hierarchy of cost centers units based on the structure of your enterprise. For example, you might have a parent group of Service cost centers that includes the Personnel department, which may be subdivided to include Employee and Labor Relations, along with other HR functions.
Last logged on

The full name of the user, if any, that was discovered to be the last logged on user on this device. Click 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
Specifies the location within your enterprise that is responsible for the device.
Tip: For virtual machines, this value is read-only when it is inherited from the host on which this VM is a guest. Inheritance is controlled by the system setting for inventory called Update virtual machine location to match host location. (For remote devices, all properties are always read-only.)
IT Asset Management enables you to create a hierarchy of locations based on the geographical hierarchy of your enterprise. For example, you can have a location Seattle under Washington, which is under USA.
Important: For IBM PVU licenses only, and only when IT Asset Management is in 'PVU mode' (responsible for sub-capacity calculations of PVU points), your choice of location may affect the assignment of this inventory device to one of the three mandatory IBM regions for which peak PVU consumption must be calculated. This is because individual locations may be mapped to an IBM region, and 'ownership' of the inventory device by a location ties it to the matching IBM region. Therefore any change of location that causes this inventory device to switch to a different IBM region (for example, because the new location is mapped to a different IBM region) may affect the calculations of the peak consumption values (and their timings) across the regions. Such a change of location is considered a correction for sub-capacity calculations, and takes effect retroactively throughout the entire reporting period (peak values are recalculated each time a full compliance calculation is run, typically nightly).

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