Manufacturer conversions overview

In the Manufacturer Conversion application, each manufacturer conversion record specifies a target manufacturer name and a variant or a set of variants. The variants are variations of the manufacturer name that the system translates to the target name when it displays manufacturer data for deployed assets.

Manufacturer conversions are necessary because discovery tools that collect information about deployed information technology assets do not use consistent naming conventions, and you might have various names assigned to the same manufacturer when deployed asset data is imported into the target database. The Manufacturer Conversion application lets you define a standard target manufacturer name and specify the variations of the manufacturer name to translate to the target name when the system displays manufacturer data for deployed assets or generates reports.

There are two ways to create manufacturer conversion records:

The way a conversion record is created affects the default value for the Reviewed check box. When the system creates a conversion record, by default, it marks the record as not reviewed. When an administrator creates a record using the Manufacturer Conversion application, the application marks the record as reviewed. You should review records that the system creates to verify that they are consistent with your naming conventions.

Note that when the system displays manufacturer data, converting a variant to a target name does not depend on the setting in the Reviewed check box; if the manufacturer name matches a variant, the system translates the variant to the target name without regard to the setting in the check box.

After a conversion record is created, you can add variants to the record as needed. Observe the following rules when adding new conversion records and when adding variants to a conversion record:


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