You can select one or more computers to promote to authorized IT assets using the Promote to Asset option in the Select Action menu in the Computers application. The promotion process creates authorized IT asset records in the Assets application using data from the computer records.
You can select multiple records to promote only if your result set on the List tab is fewer than the maximum number of rows allowed for your implementation. By default, this is 200 rows. If your result set exceeds 200 rows, use the Advanced Search feature to create a result set that has fewer than 200 rows.
Because promoting a computer also promotes partitions of the computer, the best practice is to promote from the highest level to the lowest level so that all the relationships build correctly. Use the Advanced Search feature on the List tab to find top-level deployed computers by searching for all computers that have no parents.
If you want to promote a single computer, you can open its record in the Computer tab and then promote it.
When you promote computers to assets, the application displays a system message listing promotion results. If 16 or more records are promoted, the message does not show individual computer and asset numbers. Instead it shows a count of the number of records that were promoted, already linked, and already promoted. Check the log or the reconciliation links to view the assets created as a result of the promotion. You can find the promotion log file in the following location:
machineName_MXServer_AssetPromotion.log
When the authorized IT asset created through a promotion has been deleted, the Promoted flag for the deployed computer is reset automatically. However, that deployed computer will not be promoted again through an escalation. If you want to promote it again, promote the device manually using the Promote to Asset action in the Computers application.