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Tasks |
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Tivoli Asset Management |
About defining
attributes |
You should define the attributes that will be meaningful to
your business for tracking and maintaining a group of similar assets throughout their use.
The following questions should help you determine the attributes to create for a category:
Tivoli Asset Management already provides a way to track the following attributes:
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About defining models | A model is associated with a category and may have a group of
default attribute values. When a user assigns a model to an asset, the default attribute
values are automatically assigned to the asset. |
Asset Categories dialog box | The Asset Categories dialog box displays a hierarchy of asset
categories. You can specify category names, category attributes, models, and map a
category to the SCIM using this dialog box. To access this dialog box:
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Specifying a category name | To specify the name of an asset category:
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Specifying a category attribute | To specify a category attribute:
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Specifying a model | To specify a category model:
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Specifying a default model value | To specify a default model value:
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Mapping a category to the SCIM | If you are using Tivoli Asset Management with
Tivoli Problem Management, you can map asset categories to the Tivoli Problem Management
SCIM. This lets Tivoli Problem Management users easily associate assets with Tivoli
Problem Management's problem categorization scheme. You can map a category to the
Tivoli Problem Management SCIM or you can unmap a category that was previously mapped. To map an asset category to the SCIM:
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