Virtual Devices and Clusters
The Virtual Devices and Clusters page displays the cluster hierarchy of the virtualization infrastructure detected in your organization. A cluster is a group of virtual machine hosts, each hosting one or more virtual machines. IT Asset Management creates cluster records for discovered Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, and Oracle VM clusters when the cluster inventory is collected. You can also create and manage your cluster hierarchy manually if your cluster hierarchy is not detected for any reason.
- HP and AIX virtualization (nPar, vPAR, and LPAR) (nPar, vPar, and LPAR Device and Infrastructure Inventory)
- Linux KVM (Linux KVM Infrastructure Inventory)
- Linux VMs running on IBM zSystem environments (IBM zSystem Virtual Inventory)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Microsoft Hyper-V Device and Infrastructure Inventory)
- Oracle VM (Oracle VM Device and Infrastructure Inventory)
- Solaris zones (Solaris Zones Inventory).
- VMware (VMware Device and Infrastructure Inventory)
- Search for clusters, virtual machines, and virtual machine pools: For more information about using lists, filters, and other UI options, see the topics under Using Lists in IT Asset Management.
- Create or modify a cluster: See Creating a Cluster
- View or change cluster properties: See Cluster Properties
- Add a virtual host to a cluster: See Assigning a Host to a Cluster
- Remove a virtual host from a cluster: See Removing Hosts from a Cluster
- Delete a virtual host from a cluster: See Deleting Hosts from a Cluster.
- View virtual host or virtual machine details: You can select any virtual host or virtual machine record and click Open to view its properties. For more information about inventory device properties, see Inventory Device Properties.
- Create a management view: The Save view as feature of IT Asset Management enables you to create customized management views of a page by saving the applied user interface settings. For more information, see Creating Saved Views.
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.
Property | Description |
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Asset name |
The name of a computing asset. Editable in the Name field 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:
The value of this field is automatically generated by IT Asset Management. |
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. 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 type |
Specifies the type of the cluster. IT Asset Management supports Hyper-V, Kubernetes, Oracle VM, and vMotion clusters. Editable in the General tab of the cluster properties. |
Compliance status |
The compliance status of an inventory device. It can have any of the
following values:
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Computer status |
Indicates the current state of a device. It can have any of the
following values:
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Core affinity |
The processor core or range of processor cores on the host server to which this virtual machine is bound. Editable in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties. Valid only when you select Virtual Machine as Inventory Device Type. |
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. |
CPU affinity |
The CPU or a range of CPUs to which this virtual machine is bound. Editable in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties for this virtual machine. Valid only when you select Virtual Machine as Inventory Device Type. |
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:
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. |
Host affinity |
Specifies the host or a range of hosts to which this virtual machine is bound to. Not editable. Valid only when you select Virtual Machine as Inventory Device Type. |
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:
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:
|
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 cluster or virtual host or virtual machine. Editable in the General tab of the cluster properties. |
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 discovery and inventory process generates the value of this field. |
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. Available only for inventory devices of the type Virtual Machine. |
Path |
The path of this device in the virtualization hierarchy. For example, cluster_name/host_name/ for a virtual machine. Not editable. |
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 |
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:
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 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. |
Type |
Displays the type of each record in this table. Values may be:
Tip: If you filter on any of these values, the
table contents change from a tree to a flat list.
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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. Editable in the Friendly name field in the VM properties tab of the inventory device properties for the virtual machine. The compliance calculation updates this field with the machine name returned in inventory (matched by serial number). |
VM pool type | The name given to the resource pool to which this virtual machine
belongs. Populated and (by default) updated by inventory
imports. Values may be:
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VM type |
The type of the virtual machine. 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. |
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