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Manage Models

Managing models includes defining, updating, and deleting models for an asset. For example, you define Dell Precision Workstation 410 as a model to describe the workstation.

Follow these steps:

  1. Click Model.
  2. Perform one of the following actions.
  3. Define a model.
    1. Click New Model.
    2. Enter the model information.

    Note: You can also define a model by copying an existing model, supplying a new name, changing the model information, and saving the new model.

  4. Update a model.
    1. Search for the list of available models.
    2. Click the model that you want to update.
    3. Enter the new information for the model.

    Note: You can also view the details for an object that is related to your model, if the related object has a Browse icon. When you click the Browse icon, you leave the model page and you navigate to the related object page. To keep the model page in view and preserve the model information, right-click the Browse icon and select Open Link in New Window. Close the new window when you are finished viewing the related object details.

  5. Delete a model.
    1. Search for the list of available models.
    2. Click the model that you want to delete.
    3. Click Delete and confirm that you want to delete the model.
  6. Click Save.