Promotion and partitions of computers

The Computers application displays both computers and partitions of computers. When you promote computers to IT assets, you can choose to promote the child partitions that belong to the hierarchy of the promoted computer.

To promote child instances, you select the Promote Partitions check box on the Promotion Defaults window. If you select the check box when defining default values for promotion, all child instances (partitions) of the computers or partitions selected for promotion will be promoted, even if the child instances are not in the listing of computers or partitions selected.

You can promote a partition only if the parent partition or computer meets one of the following criteria:

When you promote computers to assets, child partitions are assigned to the same location and site as the parent. You must promote from the highest level to the lowest level so that all the relationships build correctly. Before you promote computers, use the Advanced Search feature on the List tab to find top-level deployed computers by searching for all computers that have no parents. Then you can promote the computers.

Tip: Exercise caution when promoting child partitions. When a parent and child partitions are promoted at the same time, the item and classification values specified for the parent are assigned to the child partitions. Because the item and classification for child partitions might not be identical to the item and classification of the parent computer or partition (in some cases partitions can be parents), promote partitions separately from computers.


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