You use the Operating System Conversion application to
create operating system conversion records.
About this task
Operating system conversions are necessary because discovery
tools that collect information about deployed assets do not use consistent
naming conventions. Various names might be assigned to the same operating
system when deployed asset data are imported into the target database.
Use the Operating System Conversion application to define a standard
target operating system name and to specify the variations of that
name to be converted to the target name when operating system data
for deployed assets are displayed or reports are generated.
Observe
the following rules when creating operating system records and target
operating system names:
- A conversion record must have at least one variant. By default,
when you create a conversion record, the application creates a variant
identical to the target name when you save the record.
- An operating system name cannot exist in more than one operating
system conversion record, either as a variant or as a target operating
system name.
- Operating system variants and target operating system names are
case sensitive. For example, if you specify Fermion Operating
System as a variant but do not specify fermion
operating system as a variant, only Fermion
Operating System is identified as a variation of the operating
system.