Job Management Partner 1/Client Security Control Description, User's Guide and Operator's Guide

5.3.2 Setting up Asset Information Manager

This subsection explains how to set up Asset Information Manager.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Setting up to detect non-Software Distribution clients

(2) Setting up to automatically obtain inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution Manager

(3) Setting up to scrap clients

(4) Setting the device type

(1) Setting up to detect non-Software Distribution clients

To detect client information for non-Software Distribution clients, reflect this information for Asset Information Manager, and perform judgment using JP1/CSC, specify the following setting during Asset Information Manager setup:

• In Link with JP1/SD in the Setup dialog box, set Take machines without SD installed to Take.

For details about how to detect non-Software Distribution clients, see 7.2 Detecting non-Software Distribution clients.

(2) Setting up to automatically obtain inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution Manager

To automatically obtain inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution Manager, start the following Asset Information Manager service:

• Asset Information Synchronous Service
  

  Note

  When starting Asset Information Synchronous Service, use the following service start order:

  • Client Security Control - Manager
  • Asset Information Synchronous Service

You must also specify the following setting during setup of Asset Information Manager:

• In Link with JP1/SD in the Setup dialog box, set Type of information to acquire to Hardware and software and software inventory information.

For details about how to automatically obtain inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution Manager, see 7.3 Automatically obtaining client inventory information.

(3) Setting up to scrap clients

When you scrap clients, you might want to delete the asset information about the scrapped clients from the AIM asset management database. To delete this information, specify the following settings during the Asset Information Manager setup:

• In Link with JP1/SD in the Setup dialog box, set Status of machines deleted with JP1/SD to Erase.
• Set the Data maintenance task to periodic execution.

(4) Setting the device type

A client security control system uses the Asset Information Manager device type to judge whether or not a machine is to be managed. For MachineKind in the HardwareInfo class displayed in the Code window of AIM, do not change or delete the following device types:

• PC (code: 100)
• PC server (code: 101)

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