Asset Management Handling

Philipp_Schäfer

Hello Community,

Is it possible to add displays to the hardware assets automatically and connect them to the computer?
Is there also a possibility to change the Type of a Hardware asset by the name? I have the problem that my printers and my servers are inside my hardware asset management but servers have the asset type "computer" and the printers have not any type.
The types server and printer are configured inside the hardware asset management types list.

Also my printers have not any properties like serial number inside the asset management. is there a way to get this information? Via SNMP or the SCCM?

Thanks you all.

seth_coussens

All of these things are most likely possible, but not out of the box.

Let's focus on the servers first.. basically you just have to identify what you define as a server and what properties of those computers make that determination. If you can do this then you can automate this using Orchestrator or powershell (or both together). You'd have an orchestrator trigger that triggers on a new hardware asset being created, and then looks to see if it's a server and updates the properties.

You could follow the same practice and method for printers, and even use the same base runbook and branch off once you've made the determination it's a printer.

Now as for the serial numbers of a printer, you'll need to use powershell or some other tool (could still be within orchestrator) to access that printer and scrape or pull the serial number information from it, assuming it's even available in that method. It's going to be hit or miss depending on the manufacturer and model of the printer.

What you are asking is definitely doable, but you are going to have to step outside of SCSM to do it.

seth_coussens

I don't believe that SCCM tracks the monitors by serial number firstly, and second that data is not brought over into SCSM via the SCCM connector, so it's not available to asset management natively.

You'd have to use orchestrator or powershell to pull the monitor data from SCCM (whatever is available) and manually create the assets in SCSM (or you could use the import connector from SQL or a spreadsheet).

If you can figure out a SQL query for SCCM that shows the monitors in relation to the computers, you could use the Cireson Asset Import connector to perform much of this possibly.

seth_coussens

All of these things are most likely possible, but not out of the box.

Let's focus on the servers first.. basically you just have to identify what you define as a server and what properties of those computers make that determination. If you can do this then you can automate this using Orchestrator or powershell (or both together). You'd have an orchestrator trigger that triggers on a new hardware asset being created, and then looks to see if it's a server and updates the properties.

You could follow the same practice and method for printers, and even use the same base runbook and branch off once you've made the determination it's a printer.

Now as for the serial numbers of a printer, you'll need to use powershell or some other tool (could still be within orchestrator) to access that printer and scrape or pull the serial number information from it, assuming it's even available in that method. It's going to be hit or miss depending on the manufacturer and model of the printer.

What you are asking is definitely doable, but you are going to have to step outside of SCSM to do it.

Philipp_Schäfer

I found out that i have to create catalog items manually for each Model i have in the asset management. This helps to split notebooks, workstations and servers into different asset types.
I thought that this can be done automatically. 

I will try to use powershell and orchestrar for the printer properties. Thank you for this.

Do you have any idea how to add display to the asset management as consumables and add them to the computers automatically? Can this be done with Orchestrar too?

seth_coussens

Can you clarify this statement?

Do you have any idea how to add display to the asset management as consumables and add them to the computers automatically? Can this be done with Orchestrar too?

I would say yes, you can do just about anything in SCSM with Orchestrator, but I'm not clear on what you are trying to do from the statement above.

Philipp_Schäfer

No problem,
i want to import all our monitors inside the asset management and relate them to the specified computer.
So i know for example that an employee with a notebook has two additional displays from Dell with 24 inches and the serial number X.
I know that SCCM shows the monitors inside the resource explorer so the data should be available.

seth_coussens

I don't believe that SCCM tracks the monitors by serial number firstly, and second that data is not brought over into SCSM via the SCCM connector, so it's not available to asset management natively.

You'd have to use orchestrator or powershell to pull the monitor data from SCCM (whatever is available) and manually create the assets in SCSM (or you could use the import connector from SQL or a spreadsheet).

If you can figure out a SQL query for SCCM that shows the monitors in relation to the computers, you could use the Cireson Asset Import connector to perform much of this possibly.

Philipp_Schäfer

okay thank you for this information.