WebSphere brand IBM WebSphere Sensor Events, Version 6.2

Adding a new asset type

This topic describes how to add a new asset type. Users with configuration permission can perform this task.

About this task

There is a default EPC configuration when you install Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere® Sensor Events. This default configuration is intended for demo and trial purposes only.

This default configuration:

Procedure
  1. Log in to the Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere Sensor Events application.
  2. Click Configuration > Add Asset Type.
  3. Populate the required fields.
    • Item Type: The name given to a particular class of assets. For example, the item type Laptop could represent all portable computers in your inventory.
    • Description: (Optional) Enter a brief description of the item. For example, ThinkPad R60.
    • EPC Profile: The EPC profile to associate with this item type. EPC profiles contain a company prefix and one or more EPC pack types. For more information, see Working with profiles.
    • EPC Pack Type: The EPC pack type to associate with this item type. EPC pack types describe how a tag should be encoded and specify things, such as the underlying EAN.UCC type (for example, GIAI), the EPC encoding (for example, GIAI-96), and the EPC filter value. Pack types are contained within EPC profiles. The available values are dependent on the selected EPC profile. For more information, see Working with pack types.
    • EPC Serial Number Configuration: The serial number configuration to associate with this item type. Serial number configurations specify ranges of serial numbers. For more information, see Working with serial numbers.
    • EPC Serial Number Configuration Discriminator: The serial number configuration discriminator to associate with this item type. Discriminators allow multiple ranges of serial numbers to be assigned to the same company prefix and item reference values. Available values are dependent on the selected serial number configuration.
    • Key: The property names you define for the new item type. For example, for the Laptop item type, some keys (property names) could be Serial Number, Model Number, Manufacturer, Owner, and so on.
    • Primary Identifier: A special property that is mandatory and must be unique in order to be able to uniquely identify each individual asset. Using the Laptop example, a primary identifier could be the laptop serial number.
    • Type: Defines the data type for each property. The options in this field are defined by the Asset Management Reusable Component. For more information, see the WebSphere Sensor Events Toolkit documentation.
    • Default Value: You can optionally assign a default value to one or more properties. When you add a new asset to the system, the property fields are populated with these values by default. For example, you could define IBM® as the default value for the manufacturer, if most of your assets are manufactured by IBM.
    • Min Length and Max Length: These values only apply to string data types and are used to validate the length of the strings as new assets are added to the system. For example, if you define a serial number as a string between 6 and 8 characters, then KDGB13X would be valid, but 12345 would be invalid because it is less than 6 characters.
    • Mandatory: This field is used to force the user to enter a value for this property when adding an asset of this item type. To set a property as mandatory, select the Mandatory checkbox. Otherwise, the system will accept empty values for any optional attributes. At least one Primary Identifier is required per asset, and the first property (the first row) is always mandatory.

    Click Add More if you need to additional rows for new properties.

  4. Click Submit to create the new asset, or click Reset to restore the form to its defaults and start over.

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