You use the Adapter Conversion application to control the display of imported data for network adapters or for media adapters. You can standardize adapter names and aggregate different adapter names.
Standardizing adapter names reduces the number of adapter names displayed. Each conversion record specifies a target adapter name and a variant or a set of variants. The variants are variations of the name that translates to the target name when adapter data displays for deployed assets.
To gather this data, discovery tools scan computers, network devices, and network printers deployed in your enterprise and record the information about the hardware and software installed on those assets. An integration tool imports the collected information into the database. You can view this data and also use it in reports.