Hardware asset overview

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Hardware asset overview

    The Hardware asset overview in ServiceNow provides a modernized, user-friendly interface designed to simplify and enhance the management of hardware assets. It offers a streamlined environment that reduces complexity, enabling you to efficiently monitor and act on asset-related information.

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    Key Features

    • Discrepancy Management: Quickly identify and address missing or incomplete asset details such as PO number, model number, asset function, or manufacturer.
    • Navigation to Dashboards: Access specific dashboards related to asset functions including Asset requests, Transfer orders, and Stock orders for targeted management.
    • 360 Asset View: Visualize asset counts and values grouped by model category, covering categories like Consumable, Computer, Mobile Device, Software License, and Server.
    • Overall Performance Metrics: Review discovered versus undiscovered asset counts and track assets eligible for refresh based on expiry dates, all segmented by model category.
    • Interactive Widgets and Charts: Select any widget or chart to drill down into detailed information and take appropriate actions directly from the overview.
    • Filtering Options: Filter results using Location, Stockroom, and Model category lists to focus on relevant asset subsets.
    • Load Reports on Demand: To improve page load times, large data sets for charts and widgets can be loaded selectively using the “Load report” option. This behavior is controlled by the system property snitamworkspace.assetoverviewenablelazyloading, which is disabled by default.

    Practical Benefits

    • Improved efficiency through a simplified, consolidated view of hardware assets and related activities.
    • Faster identification and resolution of incomplete or missing asset data, enhancing data quality.
    • Better asset lifecycle management by monitoring discovered assets and those due for refresh.
    • Customizable and performance-optimized interface that supports quick decision-making and action.

    Enhance your Asset Management experience by using the modernized and user-friendly Hardware asset overview view. The Hardware asset overview is a simplified and intuitive environment that helps you use the application more effectively by reducing complexity.

    Use the Hardware asset overview view to:

    • Act on discrepancies such as when an asset is missing PO number, model number, asset function, or manufacturer.
    • Navigate to specific dashboards on asset functions such as Asset requests, Transfer orders, and Stock orders.
    • View the 360 asset view section displaying asset counts by model category and asset value by model category.
    • View the overall performance section displaying the Discovered and undiscovered asset count and Assets eligible for refresh by model category.
    Select any widget or chart to view detailed information and take appropriate actions. You can also use LocationStockroom, and Model category lists to filter your results.
    Figure 1. Hardware asset overview
    Hardware asset overview in Asset Workspace
    Table 1. Quick links
    Widget or chart Description
    Asset requests Number of requested items where the item’s model is hardware, consumable, or bundle.
    Transfer orders Number of active transfer orders.
    Stock orders Number of requested hardware inventory stock order items.
    Table 2. 360 asset view
    Widget or chart Description
    Asset count by model category Number of assets grouped by the model category such as Consumable, Computer, and Mobile Device.
    Asset value by model category Cost of assets grouped by the model category such as Software License, Consumable, and Server.
    Table 3. Overall performance
    Widget or chart Description
    Discovered and undiscovered asset count Comparison of the number of discovered and undiscovered assets grouped by model category. Undiscovered assets are the assets that aren’t discovered at all or not discovered within one month.
    Assets eligible for refresh by model category Number of assets that have already expired or the current day is the expiry date, and are eligible for a refresh.

    Load reports on Hardware asset overview

    You can load charts or widgets that fetch a huge set of asset records on demand instead of loading them along with the page. This approach enables you to reduce the loading time for the Hardware asset overview page.

    The system property sn_itam_workspace.asset_overview_enable_lazy_loading provides you with an option to either selectively load reports you want to view or load reports concurrently with the page. By default, this system property is set to False. When this system property is enabled on your ServiceNow instance, you can view reports by using the Load report option.

    Figure 2. Load reports on Hardware Asset overview
    Load report option on Hardware asset overview page