Inventory Insights features

The Inventory Insights app captures data from different sources, then consolidates, normalizes, and stores it in repositories. The Inventory Insights app is also used to view and export inventory, and manage associations.

Inventory Insights uses connectors to capture software, hardware, and other data from sources such as 1E, Configuration Manager, Big Fix, and vCenter where it is consolidated, de-duplicated, and normalized. Normalization uses software and hardware entries in The Catalog structure.

An empty repository called Default Inventory is provided out of the box. You can optionally create additional inventory repositories to partition data by source, time period, or other purposes. To populate a repository, you must use one or more inventory connectors, and either manually sync the data or schedule a sync. Refer to Repositories page - 1E Server and Schedules page.

Inventory repositories are used by the following applications:

• Introducing Patch Success: Reports on and ensures successful patching of your enterprise.

• Introducing Application Migration (unavailable for SaaS): Automates the migration of applications during a Configuration Manager OS deployment.

• Introducing AppClarity: Manages entitlements, compliance and reclaiming unused software.

• Any application: If you need it to use Management Groups.

You will need to decide which of the following connectors you will use to populate Inventory repositories.

Connectors are used to connect to other 1E and third party systems, retrieve their data and populate repositories. The following inventory connectors are provided to populate the Repositories page - 1E Server:

• BigFix connector: Connects to a BigFix Inventory database server.

• BigFixInv connector: Connects to a BigFix Inventory database.

• File Upload connector: Uploads inventory data from a folder containing tab (TSV) and comma (CSV) separated value file(s).

• Intune connector: Connects to an Intune application and collects inventory and usage data.

• Microsoft Office 365 connector: Connects to an Office 365 application in InTune and pulls in inventory and usage data.

• OpenLM connector: Connects to an OpenLM database server.

• Oracle LMS connector: Connects to Oracle LMS and queries it for inventory information.

• ServiceNow connector: Connects to a ServiceNow instance to import basic inventory data into SLA Platform.

• System Center Configuration Manager connector: Connects to a Configuration Manager database and pulls in inventory and usage data.

• 1E connector: Connects the 1E and SLA components to support Management group and 1E Powered Inventory features. The 1E Powered Inventory feature uses instructions to fetch inventory data from 1E clients and is a prerequisite for Patch Success.

• vCenter connector: Connects to a vCenter server and pulls in inventory data.

• Windows Server Update Services connector: Connects to a WSUS database and pulls in patch data.

Additional connectors may exist for add-on Consumer applications that have been installed. For example, Connectors page has the following connectors to populate its entitlement repository:

• AppClarity v5.2 connector: Exports entitlements from an AppClarity 5.2 database into a TSV file, which can then be reviewed and imported into.

• Entitlement .tsv connector: Uploads entitlements from a folder containing one or more tab or comma separated value file(s).

AI Powered Auto-curation

Using the AI Powered Auto-curation feature, you'll be able to increase the total amount of Normalization software in your Inventory repositories. This is done using AI that integrates with the inventory consolidation process. By using AI, your organization will benefit from significant numbers of normalized software and a reduced manual effort needed to normalize software.

You can enable AI Powered Auto-curation either when you install 1E or post installation. Refer to AI Powered Auto-curation