Configuring Asset Management › Collection Modules › Inventory Template Modules › Create New Template

Create New Template

You can create templates to collect user-defined inventory information.

To create a new template

1. Navigate to the Control Panel, Configuration, Collection Modules, Inventory Template Modules folder.

   The existing template modules are displayed in the right pane.

2. Click New in the Tasks section.

   The Create new Template dialog appears.

3. Enter the name of the module and click Template Editor.

   The Create Template dialog appears.

4. Enter the name of the template, specify how often you want to prompt the user for inputs, and click OK.

   The Template Editor dialog appears.

5. Add groups and create attributes under each group.

   Note: Ensure that you select the appropriate value in the Access field of each attribute.

   These groups and attributes appear will have same structure when collected from the agent computers.

6. Click OK.

   A new template is created with the given specifications.

You can enable the new template in any of the existing template inventory collect tasks or create a new collect task.

Note: Once collected the data entered for this module is available under the Computer and User Groups, All Computers, Computer, Inventory, Additional, Template folder.