Organizational units can be departments, office locations, or anything else by which your organization can be ... organized. OUs can have a parent OU; an organization should be arranged in a tree.
Hardware assets can be any piece of hardware, from door locks to servers to USB thumb drives. Each hardware asset belongs to an OU. Hardware assets can have a parent hardware asset (for example, a hard drive in a server), along with the following attributes:
name
- the asset namedesc
- a description of the assetasset_owner
- the person responsible for the assetasset_custodian
- the custodian of the assethardware_type
- the hardware typedevice_maker
- the manufacturerdevice_model
- the device modelproperty_id
- the asset's company-assigned property IDlocation
- the location of the assetstatus
- the status of the assetdate_added
- the date the asset was addeddate_eol
- the asset's end of life date
Software assets can be anything from files to operating systems. Software assets belong to an OU, and can have multiple parent hardware and software assets (for example, a virtual machine that runs on a cluster of 20 servers). They also have the following attributes:
custodian_swam
- Software asset management custodiancustodian_csm
- configuration management custodiancustodian_vul
- patching/vulnerability management custodiansoftware_type
- the software typepackage_vendor
- the package vendorpackage_name
- the package namepackage_version
- the package versionsw_property_id
- the asset's company-assigned property IDstatus
- the status of the assetdate_added
- the date the asset was addeddate_eol
- the asset's end of life datehostname
- the host name, if applicabledomain_name
- the domain nameip4_address_1
- an IPv4 addressip4_address_2
- an IPv4 addressip4_address_3
- an IPv4 addressip4_address_4
- an IPv4 addressip4_address_5
- an IPv4 addressip4_address_6
- an IPv4 addressip4_address_7
- an IPv4 addressip4_address_8
- an IPv4 addressip6_address_5
- an IPv6 addressip6_address_6
- an IPv6 addressip6_address_7
- an IPv6 addressip6_address_8
- an IPv6 addressip6_address_1
- an IPv6 addressip6_address_2
- an IPv6 addressip6_address_3
- an IPv6 addressip6_address_4
- an IPv6 address