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Tivoli Asset Management |
Asset categories |
The Asset Category hierarchy contains categories for all the types of assets your company maintains. Each asset may be designated as belonging to an asset category. Assets are defined as physical items with unique asset tags. |
Asset models and attributes | You can configure a list of attributes you want
to track for each category. Attributes are the characteristics of the items in the
Category Manager and can be associated with assets. For example, if you have a category
for laser printers, your attributes might be:
You can track the characteristics that relate directly to a category of assets and have significance based on your business needs. Configuring attributes through the user interface instead of having them preset by the database is a benefit of Tivoli Asset Management. It helps you conserve database storage space and also relieves you from:
You can define sets of attributes, called models, with default attribute values. A user can assign a model with default attribute values to a new assets, instead of manually specifying attribute values. |
Asset Categories dialog box |
Use the Asset Categories dialog box to create
and maintain the asset category hierarchy. To access the Asset Categories window, do one of the following:
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Standard maintenance tasks |
This help topic covers maintenance tasks specific to the asset category hierarchy. For information on tasks that can be performed in any hierarchy, see Maintaining Hierarchies. |
Adding a root-level asset category |
The first step in setting up the asset category
hierarchy is to establish the root-level categories. The root-level categories should be
the broadest level of categories for which you want to make inquiries, determine
valuations, or conduct audits. Tip: To avoid adding duplicate asset categories, use the Find command to verify that an asset category is not already in the hierarchy or in the database. See Finding and viewing an item in a hierarchy. To add a root-level asset category:
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Adding a child-level asset category |
You can divide each root asset category into
smaller, more specific categories. The more specific categories are called children of the
root category; however, each child category can also be a parent of other child
categories. For example, if Printers is one of your root categories, its child categories be different types of printers, such as impact, laser, thermal, etc. The child categories, in turn, could be the parent categories for even more specific categories such as a printer series. Build the hierarchy until you reach the most specific category for which your company might ever want to perform an inquiry, conduct an audit, or determine the value of assets. To add a child-level category:
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Editing an asset category |
To edit a category:
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