Link SAP asset status to Altiris Asset status.

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mickwearn
March 16th, 2009

Hi,

We have learned that we should be able to integrate SAP in to the Altiris asset solution. our aim is... when the Asset manager updates the status in SAP to decommissioned, this will be imported into Altiris an affect that assets individual asset status. thus removing the need for the service centre to manually have to set the status, and keep automate the need to clean out old computers form the database.

The SAP tables are hundredous.. and where not really sure which table we need.. actually making the connection looks quite easy.. but just not sure what to connect to.

Any advice or ideas?

Thanks
Mick W.
Au.

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AltAdminNC
48 weeks 3 days ago

Suggestion

Since our SAP administrators were not too keen on us having direct access to their tables, we had them export the information we needed to a .csv file on a network share, then use that as our Data Source. We simply told them what information we needed and let them figure out which tables they were located in. They run a query daily to update the file and we run an import into Altiris from it afterwards. You could key off the appropriate field inthe Data Source to change the asset's status automatically when the import runs.
Hope this helps....

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Wallo
23 weeks 3 days ago

I agree with AltAdminNC's

I agree with AltAdminNC's approach.  All organisations I've worked with refuse to give me direct access to SAP which is not a bad thing actually.  Just ask them to dump the necessary information into a folder on a scheduled basis and use Connector to pull it in.

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