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What is Asset Integration?

Organizations use specific client management solutions for configuration of their Assets and other management requirements. Some of these client management solutions also collect detailed hardware and software inventory information from the Endpoint Assets. While such solutions are designed to be used for client management requirements, they may not be efficient for managing the Assets. SummitAI Application provides the Asset Integration feature to manage the Assets of an organization, efficiently.

The following external database servers are associated with the Asset Integration process:

Advantages

• Customers can continue to use the client management software while they can use the data collected from Asset Integration in the SummitAI application for a holistic Asset Management experience.
• In this integration process the data is directly collected from the SCCM and Lansweeper databases. Thus, no additional SummitAI Asset Agent is required for such integrations.

Process

The Asset integration consists of the following processes:

• Scheduling data import from an external server to the SummitAI application using the server plugin.
• Managing the life cycle of the Asset Management module using the imported data available in the SummitAI application database.

These data import processes use SummitAI Server or Proxy Server to import appropriate data from the external database tables to the Asset Management module. Based on the configuration, you can import either full data or incremental data using the database.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for SCCM Database Server

The following table describes the views, functions, and procedures that must be executed in the SCCM Database server:

File path: ~\SummitWeb\MDLAssetMgmt\AssetFiles\SCCM-Prerequest_Scripts.sql

Prerequisites for  Lansweeper Database Server

The following table describes the views, functions and procedures that must be executed in the LansweeperDatabase server:
File path: ~\SummitWeb\MDLAssetMgmt\AssetFiles\LANSWEEPER-Prerequest_Scripts.sql

Access Prerequisites for SCCM/Lansweeper:

SCCM/Lansweeper database server must be accessible from the SummitAI Server or Proxy Server based on the monitoring source configuration. SQL port (1433 default) to SCCM/Lansweeper Server must be opened for SUMMIT to send queries to the database. An SQL server authentication account or Windows Authentication account is required. This account requires following permissions:

• While using Transact-SQL statements, the authentication account requires ALTER ANY LINKED SERVER permission on the server or membership in the setupadmin fixed server role.
• While using Management Studio, the authentication account requires CONTROL SERVER permission or membership in the sysadmin fixed server role.

Accessing the Feature

In SummitAI application, you can view and schedule Asset Integration jobs on the ASSET INTEGRATION page and view the Asset Integration Status report on the ASSET INTEGRATION STATUS page. For more information about these pages, see Configuring Asset Integration Details and Asset Integration Status, respectively.