Manufacturer Conversion application

The Manufacturer Conversion application determines how to display imported manufacturer data in the Computers, Network Printers, and Network Devices applications and in reports.

The discovery tools that gather information about deployed IT assets do not always use the same naming conventions when the tools create the manufacturer data for the deployed assets.

You create manufacturer conversion records to produce a consistent presentation of information for deployed IT assets, by assigning a target name to one or more variant names.

For example, assume that a discovery tool returned data that identifies deployed IBM® computers and that the tool used IBM as the manufacturer name when it generated the data that you are importing. If your target database uses IBM Corporation as the manufacturer name for IBM devices, you need to create a manufacturer conversion record that specifies IBM Corporation as the target name, and, in this example, you would create a variant name of IBM. Do this will cause IBM Corporation to be used as the manufacturer name when you display or generate asset information for deployed computer assets.

You can create multiple variant names for each target name. Variant names are case sensitive; you can create variants for each form of the target name to accommodate the different forms that might be imported. Additional variants might be IBM corporation, IBM corp., IBM Corp., and so on.

For example, you can assign a target name, such as IBM Corporation, and create variations of that target name which get mapped to the appropriate target name. Variations of IBM Corporation might include variant names, such as IBM, IBM corp, and IBM Corp.

The mappings that you create only affects how manufacturer information is displayed. They do not change how manufacturer data is stored in the deployed assets database tables.

An integration tool, such as Integration Composer, imports the collected information into the database.

Manufacturer conversion records are created at the following times:
Use the Manufacturer Conversion application to perform the following actions:


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