Custom Asset information
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Submitted by Birger Wilhelmsen on 19 December, 2006 - 08:49
Q:
Hi all. I apologize if this may seem as a trivial question, but I'm rather new to this, so I'm a bit in the dark. We have Client Management Suite Level 1, and wish to add some information to your computers. We wish to add an internal 'Asset Tag' and a 'Date of purchase'. Is this at all possible, and what would the way to achieve it?
A reference to a manual + section/page would be nice.
Regards,
Birger Wilhelmsen
A:
The functionality to add/modify data to assets such as asset tags, purchase date, cost center, user, location, warranty and other non-technical information is contained in Altiris Asset Control Solution. The solution is part of the second level of the Service & Asset Management Suite.
Customers that currently own CMS L1 would install the Service & Asset Management Suite to integrate with Inventory Solution and add data fields and relationships that are needed for asset management.
You can obtain more information on this suite here.
(6 votes)
Custom Asset information
If you use Dell managed desktops, Dell Client Manager can apply custom bios profiles (custom profile per machine) to set asset information. We are testing a method where DS can leverage the Dell code from Dell Client Manager to look up the asset tag from a data source and populate the bios of the machines with asset tag and other information. This will allow us to set the asset info in the bios as the machines come into DS. It would be great if they added this feature to the DCM 3.0 code.
-readzzz
Asset Tags
At my work we place a Custom and Unique ID tag on the pcs and laptops when they hit the back door, it is called an ETX Number and when the pc is imaged the ETX number is entered into the Machine BIOS as most machines have a BIOS string for this and the system has worked out pretty good to date.
Tom Fronza
Custom Asset Information
Hello,
Most of my customers that do not have Asset Control Solution. Use some registry keys to store Asset information and a custom inventory to capture them.
Regards,
Fabrice
Or...
One other option, if you don't want to muck with the registry, is to create an INI file with the settings and capture that with a custom inventory.
If you want to enter stuff in the console, I think you need Asset Control, however.