Job Management Partner 1/Asset Information Manager Planning and Setup Guide
You must enable this task immediately after you set up the asset management server.
When information is updated, the Data maintenance task updates other related information and deletes unnecessary information to maintain data integrity in the asset management database. You can also select for execution only those tasks that are necessary from among the ones that can be executed. For details about how to select the tasks to execute, see (3) Changing the tasks to be executed.
When you execute the Data maintenance task, Hitachi recommends that you stop all Asset Information Manager services, commands, and tasks.
To stop Asset Information Manager services, stop the following services in the order indicated below:
When you use Asset Information Manager after having executed the Data maintenance task, start the services in the reverse order from the order in which they were stopped.
Use the Data maintenance task to execute the following procedures:
In the Data maintenance task, you can use an option to specify and execute the processing in the [MAINTE_n] section described in the settings file (taskopt.ini).
To specify an option, display the task properties. On the Task tab, specify the option after the file name in Run.
To change the task to be executed in the Data maintenance task, describe the task to be changed in the settings file (taskopt.ini). Specify in different sections the tasks to be normally executed and those that are to be executed when options are specified.
The storage destination and the coding method for the settings file are described below.
Figure 5-16 taskopt.ini coding method
Table 5-28 Variable names to be specified in taskopt.ini
Processing content | Variable name | Specification value | Default |
---|---|---|---|
Deleting asset information and related information for devices in Erase status. | ASSET_ERASE_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting information related to devices in Restore, Scrap, or Pre-Scrap status. | ASSET_ASSOC_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting asset information and related information for software in Erase status. | SOFTINFO_ERASE_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting information related to software in Restore or Scrap status. | SOFTINFO_ASSOC_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting contract information in Erase status. | CONTRACT_ERASE_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting volume contract information in Erase status. | VOLUME_ERASE_DEL |
|
YES |
Changing the user name registered in the existing asset information according to the user name changed in a window operation. Setting the user name that corresponds to an ID in the asset information. |
USER_ASSOC_UPD |
|
YES |
Changing the group name registered in the existing asset information according to the group name changed in a window operation. Setting the group name that corresponds to an ID in the asset information. |
GROUP_ASSOC_UPD |
|
YES |
Changing the location registered in the existing asset information according to the location changed in a window operation. Setting the location that corresponds to an ID in the asset information. |
LOCATION_ASSOC_UPD |
|
YES |
Deleting unnecessary IP address management information. | IP_UNNECESSARY_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting installed software information for which no installed software name is registered. | INSTINFO_NOLIST_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting the association between the user and the software key information for licenses whose license category is not User license. Deleting the association between the hardware asset information and the software key information for licenses whose license category is not Install license. |
LICENSELINK_UNNECESSARY_DEL |
|
YES |
Combining the license count and the license keys if a transferred license has the same Group ID and Asset No. as an existing license. | SOFTINFO_CONSOLIDATE |
|
YES |
Deleting the installed software information of the software whose management level is set to Unused. | INSTINFO_UNMANAGED_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting group- or location-specific IP groups from which the corresponding groups or locations have been deleted. | IPGROUP_NOOBJECT_DEL |
|
YES |
Registering the group that corresponds to the IP address in the hardware asset information in Group in the asset information. | IP_GROUP_ASSOC |
|
NO |
Registering the location that corresponds to the IP address in the hardware asset information in Location in the asset information. | IP_LOCATION_ASSOC |
|
NO |
Deleting file attachments that do not have corresponding information. | ATTACHFILE_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting related asset information that does not have an asset ID of asset information that matches the child asset ID of the related asset information. | RELATION_NOOBJECT_DEL |
|
YES |
Deleting division information set for groups that no longer exist. | DIVISIONINFO_NOOBJECT_DEL |
|
YES |
In this example, only the necessary tasks are executed and the task execution interval is changed according to the task content of each task.
The following tasks are to be executed in the Data maintenance task at the intervals described:
[DATAMAINTENANCE] ASSET_ERASE_DEL = NO ASSET_ASSOC_DEL = NO SOFTINFO_ERASE_DEL = NO SOFTINFO_ASSOC_DEL = NO CONTRACT_ERASE_DEL = NO VOLUME_ERASE_DEL = NO IP_UNNECESSARY_DEL = NO INSTINFO_NOLIST_DEL = NO LICENSELINK_UNNECESSARY_DEL = NO INSTINFO_UNMANAGED_DEL = NO USER_ASSOC_UPD = NO GROUP_ASSOC_UPD = NO LOCATION_ASSOC_UPD = NO SOFTINFO_CONSOLIDATE = NO [MAINTE_1] ASSET_ERASE_DEL = YES SOFTINFO_ERASE_DEL = YES SOFTINFO_ASSOC_DEL = YES [MAINTE_2] IP_UNNECESSARY_DEL = YES |
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