Custom Fields on Asset Inventory

Usage and Config
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(imported topic written by Federico.Vietti)

Hi All,

I’d like to know if it is possibile to assign custom fields to an unmanaged asset discovered with Asset Discovery of TEM.

My wish is, for example, to assign a company asset ID that will be manually filled.

It is possible?

if yes, in which way?

thank you

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(imported comment written by Tim.Rice)

Federico,

I don’t think you can do that via TEM. For TEM to work it’s magic, I believe there needs to be a TEM Client installed on the endpoint, which would make it a Managed Asset.

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(imported comment written by Federico.Vietti)

Thank you!

but after the TEM client is installed can I give custom fields to the managed asset?

If yes, in which way?

thank you

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(imported comment written by Tim.Rice)

Under Edit Computer Settings … Choose the ADD button. Create your Setting and give it a value.

I’ve done this with Fields like …

  • ContactName
  • ContactPager
  • ContactPhone
  • Owner

The setting change is sent to the system like an Action and the value will be set as soon as the client picks it up. In Windows, it’s stored in the Registry key [HKLM\SOFTWARE\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client{setting name}]. Keep in mind that this would be on a 32bit system, 64bit systems store 32bit settings under the Wow6432Node. Other OS’s use different locations. You might consider creating an open ended Task that looks for systems that DO NOT have the setting, and have it set a default “UNKNOWN” value rather than getting an error back if you try to query it.

The relevance for that kind of task would look something like
not exists setting “AssetID” of client
and the action would be
setting “AssetID”=“UNKNOWN” on {now} for client
.

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(imported comment written by vincent.h)

Another option is to use the comments field under the computer details tab to fill in your custom info though most customers will use Tim’s method described.

Vince