Note: Updated for MMS 7.2
In your environment you may wish to do more with the information that's sent from the MDM agent to the CMDB.
This article describes one possible method of associating the mobile device with it's owner. This is especially useful as the device names for iOS devices won't always give you an indication of who uses that device.
This method uses a report that lists the enrollment user ID and matches it with the windows user ID, in addition to listing the guid's of the Mobile device and windows user. I've attached the xml for both the report and the CMDB rule but I'll do my best to arm you with the required knowledge as well.
Creating the report: (Report is attached)
- Create a new report called Mobile Ownership, then in the Query tab, change the base query to mobile.
- Click on 'Use Fields & Data Class Attributes' and add the following (It's not essential to add all of these but we're using this report for multiple purposes). Mobile.Name, Mobile_Device.UserId and Mobile.Guid. Give Mobile.Guid the alias of "ResourceGuid".
- From Mobile_device, create a join and add Inv_Global_Windows_Users. On the left side entry box, add Mobile_Device.UserId and on the right side entry box, add UserId.
- In the 'Fields" tab, make sure that the following are listed. Mobile.Name, Mobile_Device.UserId, Inv_Global_Windows_Users.UserId, Inv_Global_Windows_Users._resourceGuid and Inv_Global_Windows_Users.Domain
- Set the Inv_Global_Windows_Users._resourceGuid's alias to "Resource Guid" (Note: As far as I'm aware, this should work as long as the Alias contains the word "Guid" in sentance case as shown, however I had to name both the mobile and user guids some combination of Resource Guid to get the rule to save properly).
- Save the report. You should see the device name, the enrolled userID, guid for the mobile asset, the windows userID, guid for the windows userID and the user's domain.
Creating the rule: (Rule is attached)
- Click on Settings, All Settings. Then navigate to Notification Server, Connector, CMDB Rules. Right-click and create a CMDB Rule called Mobile Ownership.
- Select Mobile as the Resource type and target using a report. select the Mobile Ownership report we created earler.
- This process may add data classes and associations. Add or remove data classes and resources so that you are only left with the 'Ownership Details' Data Class, and the 'Asset User Owners' forward association (Both are found under 'CMDB Data Classes').
- In the 'Ownership Details' dataclass, select Update for Update Mode, set the Owner Source to Resource Guid, then set the Ownership Percentage as a value, which will be 100.
- Set the Lookup Key for the Asset User Owner as User UserId/Domain, then in the Key column mappings, set the UserId to the MDM enrollment User, and set the domain to domain.
- Test the rule, as long as there's no null values for UserID's, you should get a success.
- Set a schedule for your rule.
That should be all you need to do in order to bind a mobile device to an owner, which you can then leverage for asset management, MDM profiles, etc.
Sample report and rule for Mobile Ownership are attached.
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