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Setting up locations and zones

A company is typically divided into many different rooms, buildings, or addresses.

Before you begin, you need to determine the location of typical assets, such as Racks and Servers. Asset Inventory Management Services for WebSphere® Sensor Events uses the term location to specify where the item is, down to the room level. Within the room, the location is divided into one or more zones. Parent and child relationships are used to determine where an item is contained.

A location:

A location can be divided into different logical areas, called zones, for the following reasons:

A zone does not contain any other zones, only assets.

Locations are set up on WebSphere Sensor Events. For more information on creating locations, see Working with locations.

Whenever an item is read by a handheld device, the location and zone for the tag read will be the room location and its corresponding zone. These places will have been selected on the handheld screen.

These locations and zones are also used by the handheld device to assist the auditor doing an audit. They are used to group all the top-level assets for a given zone so that when the auditor first selects a location and then chooses one of the available zones, such as a room area called Zone A, all the assets for that location and its containing zone appear.

Before the first audit is performed, or when a new item is introduced, there will be default location and zone information for each item.


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