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.
| 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:
|
| 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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