Asset ID

Use the Asset ID™ task to view lease, warranty, user, and system information, including hard disk drive serial numbers, system serial numbers, and system board serial numbers. You also can use Asset ID to create personalized data fields to add custom information.

Icon Asset
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Supported IBM® Director objects Level-2 managed systems
Supported operating systems

For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation. A comparable service is also available in the Web-based Access feature.
Required hardware or hardware limitations None, although if a system is EEPROM-enabled the data is written to the EEPROM as well as to a file. If the system is not EEPROM-enabled the data is written to a file only. Systems that have EEPROM include, but are not limited to, NetVista™ and ThinkPad® computers.
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support Yes
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task
  • (For Windows®) c:\Program Files\IBM\Director\data\asset.dat
  • (For Linux®) /opt/ibm/director/cimom/data/asset.dat
  • (For i5/OS™) /Qibm/UserData/Director/data/asset.dat
Events associated with this task
  • CIM→System→Lease Expiration
  • CIM→System→Warranty Expiration
  • (SNMP events under iso) ibmSystemMIB→ibmSystemLeaseExpiration
  • (SNMP events under iso) ibmSystemMIB→ibmSystemWarrantyExpiration

For detailed events information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Related tasks
Configuring asset information for a group
Configuring asset information for a managed system
Creating an Asset ID profile
Inventorying asset information
Modifying an Asset ID profile
Related reference
Asset ID window

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