The system database maintains two kinds of data about information technology assets or items: authorized asset data and deployed asset data. The system maintains these two distinct sets of data in two different modules—the Assets module and the Deployed Assets module.
Assets Module — The system maintains asset records for purchased or leased IT assets in the Assets application. You create these records in the Assets application or when you use the Receive Rotating Items action in the Receiving application. An IT asset is an asset that has a class structure identifier that belongs to the top-level IT classification used in your enterprise.
You can also view reconciliation results in the Assets application. The system displays reconciliation results when you select Asset Details from the Select Action menu on the Asset tab.
Deployed Assets Module — In addition to asset information in the Assets applications, the Deployed Assets module applications maintain data collected directly from assets actually installed in your enterprise. To gather this data, asset discovery tools scan computers, network devices, and network printers deployed in your enterprise and record information about the hardware and software installed on those assets. Integration tools import the collected data into the system. You view this data in the Deployed Assets module applications.
Note: In this online help, the term IT asset refers to information technology assets maintained in the Assets application. The term deployed asset refers to asset data maintained in the Deployed Assets module applications.
The Reconciliation module applications let you configure a behind-the-scenes process that reconciles authorized asset data against deployed asset data and identifies successful matches as well as discrepancies and variances between the two. You can view the results of this reconciliation in the Asset Link Results and Asset Reconciliation Results applications.
Reconciliation Module Overview