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Hardware Assets Sample Map File

A hardware asset is a physical product that you own or plan to acquire. Hardware assets have unique identifiers, such as serial numbers, configurations, or contacts. Hardware asset records include information about the following:

• Hardware asset configuration
• Availability status of the hardware asset
• Software details that are allocated to the hardware asset
• Cost, legal, and ownership data

The Hardware Assets map file and data file show you how to map basic hardware data. The mapping creates ten hardware assets, associated models, companies, and contacts.

Mapping file

hardware mapping.map

Data file

hardware.csv

You can find the sample map files, with their corresponding sample data files, in the following location:

C:\Program Files\CA\ITAM\Data Importer\Samples

Important! Use a test database (not a production database) when you load sample data with the sample mapping files. You cannot remove test data easily after it is imported into your database.

Verify that the following steps are complete before you use the Hardware Assets sample import:

• The Contacts sample import was processed to provide the association between contacts and hardware assets.
• Your CA APM database contains a company with a company alias of TIS.

Note: If a company with a company alias of TIS does not exist, you can add a company with this alias to your CA APM database. To create a company, start the Data Importer and select Tools, Advanced Settings. On the Settings dialog, select Automatically create new Secondary Lookup object. The company object is created based on the data that is provided in the hardware.csv data file.