What is Asset Management

The following is a description of the individual elements in Asset Management.

In this section

• Application groups - Collect related software so it can share one license.
• Assets - What are assets and how to use them?
• Business Units in Asset Management - How business units organize units.
• Computers in Asset Management - See how computers are managed in CMS.
• Data structure - See from where the data is “born”.
• Disallowed applications - Prevent specific applications from running.
• Discovered applications - See which applications the inventory scan found.
• Discovered files - Learn how scanned .exe files are managed.
• Export - Understand what exporting is in Asset Management.
• Import - Understand importing into Asset Management.
• Inventory Management - The six inventory types collected from clients.
• Metering - Understand metering on software.
• Metering executable - Define the executable that is metered on an application group.
• Metering history - Usage-history graphs and the license forecast.
• Metering properties - The software metering properties dialog.
• Other devices - Manage devices that are not computers, printers, or mobiles.
• Printer management - Register printers as assets (Configuration Management).
• Smartphones in Asset Management - Where smartphones appear in the tree.
• Software - Learn about software management in CMS.
• Tablets in Asset Management - Where tablets appear in the tree.
• Units in Asset Management - Units and their functionality.