When designing an asset management system that uses Asset Information Manager, first investigate and decide what is to be managed (the management targets) in the asset management system. Asset Information Manager can manage devices, software programs, and operation logs.

This section explains the information that can be managed for each management target.

Information about the management targets

• You can acquire the main information about a management target by linking Asset Information Manager to JP1/Software Distribution.
  To import the information collected by JP1/Software Distribution for utilization in an asset management database, choose the targets to be managed by the asset management database based on the information collected by JP1/Software Distribution. For details about the information that can be acquired from JP1/Software Distribution, see 13.1 Inventory information that can be acquired from JP1/Software Distribution and 13.2 Operation logs that can be acquired from JP1/Software Distribution.
  
• You can also acquire information from the management target by linking to HP NNM Version 7.5 or earlier.
  For details about linking to HP NNM Version 7.5 or earlier, see 2.2.2 Linking to HP NNM Version 7.5 or earlier and managing the network configuration.
  
• To register information not collected by JP1/Software Distribution or information unrelated to JP1/Software Distribution in the asset management database, and to manage such information, import a CSV file.
  For details about acquiring asset information, see 3.2 Collecting asset information.
  

By importing sample data, you can design and evaluate an asset management system while manipulating Asset Information Manager's main windows. For details about how to import data, see 5.11.4 Importing sample data for design (linkage with JP1/SD).

Organization of this section

2.1.1 Managing devices

2.1.2 Managing software

2.1.3 Managing the operation logs