Hardware asset overview
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Summary of Hardware Asset Overview
The Hardware Asset Overview, introduced in the Washingtondc release and updated on February 1, 2024, offers a modernized and user-friendly interface designed to enhance the Hardware Asset Management experience. This environment simplifies navigation and reduces complexity, allowing you to manage hardware assets more effectively.
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Key Features
- Discrepancy Management: Quickly address missing information such as purchase order numbers, model numbers, and manufacturers.
- Dashboard Navigation: Access specific dashboards for Model normalization, Asset requests, Transfer orders, Stock orders, Asset reservations, RMA orders, Refresh requests, and Disposal orders.
- 360 Asset View: Gain insights into asset counts categorized by model and lifecycle state, as well as asset values.
- Performance Overview: Monitor the model lifecycle, track discovered vs. undiscovered assets, and identify assets eligible for refresh.
- Load Reports: Option to load charts or widgets on demand to improve page loading times, controlled by the system property snitamworkspace.assetoverviewenablelazyloading.
Key Outcomes
By leveraging the Hardware Asset Overview, you can expect enhanced visibility into your hardware assets, streamlined discrepancy resolution, and improved overall asset management efficiency. The ability to filter results by Location, Stockroom, and Model category further supports effective decision-making and resource allocation within your organization.
Enhance your Hardware 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 Model normalization, Asset requests, Transfer orders, Stock orders, Asset reservations, RMA orders, Refresh requests, and Disposal orders.
- View the 360 asset view section displaying Asset counts by model category and lifecycle state, and asset value by model category.
- View the overall performance section displaying the Model lifecycle overview of all the assets, Discovered and undiscovered asset count, and Assets eligible for refresh by model category.
| Widget or chart | Description |
|---|---|
| Model normalization | Percentage of hardware and consumable models that are normalized. |
| 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. |
| Asset reservations | Number of active loaner asset orders. |
| RMA orders | Number of open RMA orders. |
| Refresh requests | Number of open hardware assets refresh order requests. |
| Disposal orders | Number of open hardware disposal orders. |
| 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 count by lifecycle state | Number of assets grouped by the lifecycle state such as Retired, In use, and In stock. |
| Asset value by model category | Cost of assets grouped by the model category such as Software License, Consumable, and Server. |
| Widget or chart | Description |
|---|---|
| Model lifecycle overview | Overview of model lifecycle grouped by the lifecycle phase such as End of support, End of Life, General Availability, and End of Sale. |
| Discovered and undiscovered asset count | Comparison of the number of discovered and undiscovered assets grouped by model category. Undiscovered assets are the assets that are not discovered at all or not discovered within one month. |
| Assets eligible for refresh by model category | Assets nearing the end of life and which are eligible for 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.