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Asset Management (Agent) Policy Group

A new policy subgroup, Asset Management, is added under the Agent policy group for remote virtual inventory and the display of legacy VMware ESX virtualization inventory.

You can modify the policy parameter values by double-clicking a policy to display the Setting Properties dialog.

The Asset Management policy group contains the following policy:

RVI Legacy Inventory

Specifies whether VMware ESX virtualization inventory appears in the DSM Explorer in its legacy Release 12.8 location under All Computers and in its new location.

If set to True, legacy VMware ESX virtualization inventory is displayed in both places in the DSM Explorer tree. If False, legacy VMware ESX virtualization inventory is displayed only in the new Release 12.8 location.

The following table indicates legacy and current locations for VMware ESX inventory:

Release 12.5 Nodes

Current Nodes

Configuration

Virtualization/VMware ESX Configuration

Supported Features

Virtualization/VMware ESX Configuration/Supported Features

Virtualization/Datastores

Virtualization/VMware ESX Datastores

Virtualization/Service Console

Virtualization/VMware ESX Service Console

Note: This node is available only for VMware ESX, not VMware ESXi.

Default: False, <locally managed>