How an asset is created for CI?

[rajeevhanda]

I am curious to know how a CI which is discovered through discovery creates an asset. Is there any business rule or something? Which classes of CIs are classified as assets?Can I do some customizations that allow certain CI classes to create assets?

For example: If I want to make our routers which are discovered through discovery to get added as assets. How to do this?

[jake_mckenna]

Hi Rajeev,

I think you are referencing the ability to update and change which items are going to be a ci and asset or vice versa. This is done the the Model Categories and Model records that are created in the system either OOB or by your own doing. Model Categories allows you to say when a CI of a certain class is created we should or should not create an asset. Same goes for Assets created with a certain model category will generate a CI based on the class specified in the Model Category.

In model management we can also have an option to override this like in your example some companies would not want their Windows VMs to create an asset so they would set the attribute Asset tracking strategy to Don't create Assets on the VMware Virtual Platform Model record.

Model categories

Asset tracking strategy

The process by which the model can be tracked. Choose from the following: Leave to Category: model is transparent and the category defines the asset class. Create Consumable Asset: model forces the asset class to be consumable, regardless of what the category defines as the asset class. Don't create assets: model blocks asset instantiation, regardless of what the category defines as the asset class.

[Carl Fransen1]

I've been working through this exact thing over the past few weeks - one great person for this is bsweetser and some posts I used are:

Ask the Expert: Live Chat | Assets and Models and CIs, Oh My!

Role Model, or Why Model Management is Important

I also found the attached document recently.

Hope this helps....

[kiranbahl27]

Hi I am new to SN and Asset/cmdb I would appreciate you help How do you relate a CI to an asset also the state field on the asset and the status field on the CI for do they need to match, is there a harm in hanging them or adding to them is asset, ci , cmdb the same what fields should be on the Asset Form and What Fields should be on the ci form or cmdb form I greatly appreciate any help on this

[Carl Fransen1]

Hi Rajeev,

Check out the 'Product Catalog>Product Models>Model Categories' - these link the I and Asset tables together so that record are created in both tables if they don't already find a match - eg:   Computer.   But the likes of Consumables don't have a matching table setup so don't follow this logic.

Once created they follow the Business Rules Gaurav indicated in his reply.