1.3.4 Automating database maintenance and status monitoring

Among the issues in managing a large number of assets are the issues of how to efficiently maintain the asset management database containing the information and how to monitor the status of the assets.

Asset Console allows you to use Windows Task Scheduler to maintain the asset management database containing the asset information as well as monitor asset statuses. Specified processing is executed automatically by tasks at specified dates and times. This reduces the workload on asset managers to maintain the database and monitor managed information.

The following figure shows the concept of maintaining the asset management database and monitoring operating statuses.

Figure 1‒5: Concept of using tasks to update and monitor data in the asset management database

Database maintenance:

Asset Console allows you to effectively use database capacity while maintaining the integrity of data in the asset management database by also updating information related to the information being updated by Asset Console and removing unnecessary information.

You can also register and periodically update information from linked products in the asset management databases based on information collected by JP1/IT Desktop Management 2 - Manager.

Monitoring of operating statuses:

You can periodically check for contracts whose expiration dates are getting close, and notify an asset manager by email. This informs the asset manager about contracts that are about to expire, so that they can be renewed in a timely manner.

You can also periodically total the usage statuses of software licenses, and provide an email notification if an installation exceeds the number of owned licenses or an installation using an unauthorized license is detected.

For details about setting up tasks with Task Scheduler, see 7.9 Setting the tasks that are registered in Task Scheduler.

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