IBM® Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere® Sensor Events is a data center inventory management solution that can use barcode or passive RFID technology. A barcode or passive RFID tag is attached to each IT asset in a data center and a handheld reader is used to read, identify and audit those tagged assets. Audits can be performed much more quickly using passive RFID technology, allowing audits to be performed more often.
Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere Sensor Events consists of:
Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere Sensor Events is available for WebSphere Sensor Events as an optional, orderable component.
This solution helps you:
This solution gives the you the ability to quickly and efficiently take inventory of assets, and more effectively determine where assets are and comply with audit requirements.
In order to get started with tracking assets in Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere Sensor Events, the following actions are required:
Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere Sensor Events provides a flexible data model which allows an administrator to configure the types of assets they wish to track along with the properties for each of those asset types. This provides you with a means to distinguish between different asset types at tracking stages or during auditing and allows them to search or query any asset type on any property they have defined for it.
Once the asset types and properties have been defined by an administrator, you can add any assets to the system and allocate a RFID tag ID to be associated with the asset. Alternatively they can do a bulk import of all their assets by configuring a few mapping properties and using the Import Asset function.
Where assets are not pre-tagged with RFID tags, Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere Sensor Events will automatically assign a tag identifier when you are importing items that do not have a tag ID included as part of the CSV file, and the handheld application provides a means of programming tags based on the allocated tag ID.