Job Management Partner 1/Asset Information Manager Administrator's Guide
By using the Device Change Log job menu, you can manage change log information, such as for a computing device's CPU, memory size, and disk space. You can detect increases or changes in memory, hard disk drives, etc. by browsing for changes in the memory size and disk space. You can also use this job to manage the change logs of IP addresses and MAC addresses.
Device change logs are acquired when you register inventory information from JP1/Software Distribution and node information from HP NNM Version 7.5 or earlier. This means that Asset Information Manager must be linked to either JP1/Software Distribution or HP NNM Version 7.5 or earlier for you to manage device change logs.
To manage device change logs, start from the Device Change Log window, which is displayed by clicking the Device Change Log job menu. The following figure shows the Device Change Log window.
Figure 2-13 Device Change Log window
If you click an Asset No. link in the search results list, the Device Details dialog box is displayed, allowing you to view the details of the corresponding device.
In the Device Change Log window, for the search conditions, specify the period for which to acquire device change logs. By performing this type of search, you can obtain the change logs regarding the CPU, memory, and disk capacity devices for the specified period.
If you want to know when changes were made to a device's CPU, memory, or disk space, or if you want to see change logs related to the computing device type of each device, select the managed group, specify the start date and end date for Update date for the period over which you want to collect the logs, and then perform a search.
If the start date is omitted and only the end date is specified, the logs are collected from the earliest date that inventory information logs were collected until the specified end date.
If the end date is omitted and only the start date is specified, the logs are collected from the specified start date until the most recent log date.
To discover if an IP address or a MAC address has changed, specify Network address as a search condition.
Before you can acquire change logs for network addresses (IP or MAC addresses), you must first use the Acquire Device Update Record Items job menu to set IP addresses and MAC addresses as items for which to acquire change logs. For details about setting items to collect as change logs, see 9.7 Selecting the items to be acquired as device change logs (Acquire Device Update Record Items) in the Planning and Setup Guide.
For Network address, IP addresses and MAC addresses are displayed in the form IP-address - MAC-address. If change logs are set to be acquired for only one of these types of addresses, however, only change logs for addresses of that type are displayed.
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