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Asset Configurations

An asset configuration is a description of an asset (for example, a desktop computer) and its individual components (for example, personal productivity software, monitor, modem, and so forth). CA APM lets you track the configuration information for both an asset and model. In addition, you can associate an asset or model record to their component asset and model records to initiate a relationship between them.

This information helps you maintain historical information about the changes to a configuration for an asset over the course of its life. You can define configuration records for any model or asset in the repository.

Asset configuration records can be of the following types:

• Model configuration. Describes the configurations that manufacturers currently offer and any substitutions or additions that your company typically makes to those configurations when you purchase them. Use this type of configuration record to describe configurations for hardware models.
• Asset configuration. Describes the configurations of existing hardware assets. Use this type of configuration record when the asset configurations are different from the standard model configurations to indicate the changes between the model and asset configurations. You can also use this configuration type to describe changes to existing configurations.

You can change these configuration types at any time and manage the changes.

More information:

Add Components in a Model Configuration

Add Components in an Asset Configuration