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Whenever you would like to create a large set of assets Assets, it’s easier to use the excel import function described in this article. You can only import alle all values for one “Assignment state“ per import, so you have to create a single Excel file for every “Assignment state“.
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In the first step you need to create an excel. You have to create as many rows colums as the amount of attributes Attributes that are assigned to this “Asset type”
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The rows mustn’t colums do not need to have the same name as the Attributesattributes. You will do the references (Attribute reference them (attribute → Excel row) in a later step. If you want to import values, which should already have an existing assignment, you have to create an row a colum with an identifier for the object with the assignment. For example the SID for an active directory identity. |
Row Colum for the values for attribute 1
Row Colum for the values for attribute 2
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Now fill in all the values for the attributes in the specified row colum you just created before.
Example:
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In this step we have to define what we want to import an and from where. So We have to execute this step in the Web GUI. Navigate to the asset, in which you want to import the data, in the “Asset Management“. Open it by clicking on the asset. Click on the “Import“-button in the right top corner of the detail page of the asset.
Now you can fill in the following information for the import:
Asset Type; Asset TypeAsset Group; From which asset group should the import beUpload; Excel FileAssignment state; Free, assigned, external assignedAttribute 1; References on the row colum of the excel sheetAttribute 2; References on the row colum of the excel sheet…..
If you filled in every information above, you are ready to start the import.
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