Adding software to the catalog manually

Use the Software Catalog application to manually add catalog records to the Maximo® database.

About this task

Most records are added to the software catalog as a result of importing software data into the Maximo database from the optional Software Knowledge Base Toolkit or Asset Discovery for z/OS® products, or from another discovery tool database. However, you must manually add a software catalog record whenever you want to assign a preferred (or target) name to already discovered, non–knowledge base, non–Asset Discovery for z/OS software. Then you can make each instance of the discovered software a conversion variant (as described in Defining conversion variants) to the software named in the newly added software catalog record.

If you are working with software whose catalog record originated with externally discovered data (with a discovery tool database or with the knowledge base), you cannot rename the record in the Software Catalog application, even though the software might be misnamed. All of these records are read-only, and if they could be renamed, the names would be overwritten the next time the data was refreshed by another import.

But, in the case of discovered software, you can create a new record, giving it the preferred name (called the target name), and then make the original (misnamed) record a variant of the new one. This ability to create catalog records manually lets you define naming conventions for most discovered software. (Renaming of software that originates from the knowledge base must be done from Software Knowledge Base Toolkit, not from the Software Catalog application. And the same is true for software discovered by Asset Discovery for z/OS.)

Software named by manually creating a software record is not by definition discovered. The value of such a software record is that it associates all like software with a single, consistent software name that can be used in the Software Catalog and Computers applications.

The steps for adding software to the catalog follow.

Procedure

  1. On the navigation bar, click Go To > Administration > Deployed Assets > Software Catalog.
  2. On the toolbar, click New.
  3. On the Software tab, type the preferred, or target, name in the Software Name field. The name can be any unique alphanumeric text string, including spaces. Optionally, a version number, release number, or both can be included in the name.
  4. Complete additional fields in the record heading section as needed. An asterisk (*) indicates a required field.
  5. Optional: To make one or more existing catalog records a conversion variant of the new one, refer to Defining conversion variants.
  6. Click Save.


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