Making Demographic Data Consistent Between Devices And Purchase Records - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

Each product line item (or detail) in an import file includes Site, Department, and Cost Center fields.
These are the fields that must contain the appropriate information. For information about editing an
import file, see
13.4 Making Demographic Data Consistent
Between Devices and Purchase Records
As demographic data is added to devices and purchase records, different values might be used to
represent the same site, department, or cost center. For example, the same site might be represented
by Site1 in the Inventory device data and SiteOne in purchase record data.
Inconsistent data can cause problems when Asset Management tries to match product installations to
demographic allocations. For example, if you create a SiteOne allocation from the purchase record
demographic data, any product installations on a device assigned to Site1 are not matched to the
SiteOne allocation.
In order to synchronize your demographic data, you can replace your purchase records demographic
values with values from your Inventory device data. For example, you could replace all occurrences
of SiteOne in purchase records with Site1.
1 In ZENworks Control Center, click the Asset Management tab.
2 On the License Management page, click Purchase Records.
3 In the Purchase Records list, click Action, then click Replace Site Demographic, Replace
Department Demographic, or Replace Cost Center Demographic.
4 In the Demographic Value dialog box, fill in the following fields:
Demographic value from Purchase Records: Select the value you want to replace in your
purchase records. The list includes an empty value; if you select the empty value, all empty
fields for the demographic (Site, Department, or Cost Center) are replaced.
Demographic value from Inventory: Select the replacement value.
5 Click OK.
116 ZENworks 10 Asset Management Reference
Section 9.9, "Working with Import Files," on page 89.