Get started with Device Inventory

Getting Started guide for Device Inventory

You can get started quickly with OneSite Device Inventory by starting a free trial. This is a great way to pilot data collection with a few devices and utilize both the device inventory dashboards and dynamic dashboards created by OneSite Aida.

To purchase and register a Device Inventory license, see License your OneSite solution.

1. Login in the OneSite Admin Portal.

2. Click the gear icon > Product Licensing.

3. Click Start Free Trial and select OneSite Device Inventory with AI or OneSite Device Inventory.

4. Once the license is added, in the details pane for OneSite Device Inventory with AI, toggle ON Use All Clients or click Browse to select a specific Group with test devices in it.

Add Devices

Follow the guidance to install the Adaptiva client on a few test devices. Ensure that these devices are part of the group targeted by the OneSite Device Inventory license.

For this guide, we will assume all devices are in a Group named "Test Devices".

Explore Device Inventory

1. On the header navigation, click OneSite Device Inventory.

   

   Device Inventory tab
2. On the Home page, you can see high level data for your device estate as well as Quick Actions to start utilizing Device Inventory.

   

   Device Inventory Home

To start collecting and visualizing data, you need to create an Inventory Strategy and Inventory Categories. A strategy determines what data you collect from your estate and a category customizes your visualization of that data in dashboards.

Create a Strategy

1. In the left-hand navigation, click Inventory Strategies.

2. In the details pane, click + New.

3. On the Overview page, enter the following:

   • Name: AD Info

   • Description: Gather Active Directory info from Windows clients.

   • Strategy Enabled: toggled ON

   

   New Strategy
4. Click Next.

5. On the What to Collect page, click Create Sensor Entry.

   

   What to Collect
6. On the Create Sensor Entry page, click Browse.

   

   Create Sensor Entry
7. On the Select Sensor page, click to select ADInformation.

   

   Select Sensor
8. Click OK.

9. On the Edit Sensory Entry page, under Columns, click Select All.

   

   Select Sensor Metrics
10. Click Create Sensor Entry.

11. Click Next.

12. On the When to Collect page, next to Schedules, click Browse.

    

    What to Collect
13. On the Select Schedule page, search for and select ASAP and Daily At 2AM.

    

    Select Schedule
14. Click Next.

15. On the Who to Target page, next to Groups, click Browse.

    

    Who to Target
16. On the Select Group page, select the group with your test devices. Use the Group you added your test devices to.

17. Click OK.

18. Click Save.

    

    Save Strategy

Device Inventory will now run the Inventory Strategy on all targeted devices, collecting the sensor data defined by the strategy. In order to properly visualize this information, you will need to create a Inventory Category and define what metrics are useful in your dashboards.

Create a Category

1. On the left-hand navigation, click Inventory Categories.

2. In the details pane, click New.

   

   New Inventory Category
3. In the General Settings section, add the following information:

   • Name: AD Info

   • Description: Display Active Directory information gathered from Windows devices.

   • Display Icon: faBallPile

4. In the Sensor section, click Browse.

   

   Sensors
5. On the Select Sensor page, click ADInformation and then click OK.

   

   Select Sensor
6. Click Save.

View device data

Now that you have an Inventory Category defined, you can view the collected telemetry data in the device dashboard.

1. On the left-hand navigation, click Home.

2. In the All Devices section, click a device.

3. Under per-device Inventory, click the AD Info category. Data may take a few moments to populate.

   

   AD Info Dashboard

(Optional) Ask Aida

You can optionally license and use Aida with OneSite Device Inventory to query telemetry data and generate dashboards. This also allows you to aggregate data from multiple devices and sensors into a single view.

1. Click Ask Aida.

2. In the chat window type "Show me the last time group policy was applied to all windows devices."

3. Click the custom dashboard in the chat to display the data.