How do you handle mobile devices in asset management?

[HugoFirst]

My Service Desk manager needs to track mobile devices in the asset management app.   So I need to add a new category of "mobile device".

So far so good.   There is an issue however, because the category needs to be associated with a CMDB table, and I'm not entirely comfortable with the choices available.

And while I could create a new table to extend an existing table, I still need to decide which table to extend.

I have seen the article at this link: Re: CMDB, Mobile, Plotter, Monitor, Scanner

It recommends the use of the cmdb_ci_comm table.   While this table will certainly fill my immediate needs, I'm nor sure it's the best fit for my situation in the longer term.

I'm looking at the cmdb_ci_computer table because it tracks more information about the device than cmdb_ci_comm.

So I'd like to hear how other people are doing this and what worked well.

[renukesh]

Hi,

There is no such separate table available OOTB in asset for mobile devices. What i have done in past is extend the alm_hardware table and create custom table for assets.

CI to asset mapping to be done from cmdb_ci_comm table to custom table created under Hardware.