User manual SYMANTEC CMDB SOLUTION 7.0

[. . . ] Altiris CMDB Solution from Symantec Users Guide Version 7. 0 CMDB Solution Users Guide The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Documentation version: 7. 0 Legal Notice Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, and Altiris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] If a data class exists only for the resource that is discarded, the data for that data class is also discarded. Associations from the resource that is to be deleted are transferred to the new resource. If there is more than one of the same type of association, the older association is deleted. About the Resource Association Diagram The Resource Association Diagram displays a graphic that shows a resource and all associated resources. Use the Resource Association Diagram to view relationships between assets, users, locations, departments, and cost centers. From the Resource Association Diagram, you can select an associated resource to see the resources that are associated with it. The Resource Association Diagram has the following two filters: Association Type Filter This filter lets you choose which association types you want to see displayed in the Resource Association Diagram. Resource Type Filter Using resources About item tasks 31 This filter lets you choose which resource types you want to see. About item tasks In many situations you need to edit a resource's data. Items tasks simplify changing this data. Instead of opening a page and editing the resource, you can right-click the resource from the appropriate list of resources and select the appropriate task. Each resource type has a different list of item tasks. A feature of item tasks is that you can select multiple resources and make changes to all of them at the same time. For example, to assign a group of assets to a new cost center, you select the assets and specify the cost center. If there is not an item task for what you want to do, you can add one. Table 4-1 Item task Edit Resource Manager Common item tasks Description Edits the resource. Opens the Resource Manager, which displays details about the resource. Each user-defined item task is defined for a specific resource type and all of the resource types based on that resource type. If you define an item task for the Monitor resource type, the item task will be available only when you right-click on a Monitor resource. If you create an item task for a Software License resource type, the item task will be available for Software License. The task is also available for the other resource types that are based on it. For example, the types OS License, Mac License, UNIX License, and Win32 License. About resource list item tasks You can right-click on a resource that is listed on this page to perform item tasks. The following table lists and describes the most common item tasks. You can also access the item tasks from the Resource Display page. [. . . ] The task status table displays a list of scheduled task times. You can customize the results with the View, Group by, and Search options. Saves the changes that were made to the task. Discards the changes that were made to the task. Save changes Cancel Update network resource location task page CMDB Solution can be configured to automatically set the location of an asset based on the subnet that is associated with the asset. [. . . ]