About the working of default data collectors in asset import

To import the assets in the asset system, you select a data collector. You can select a default data collector or a CSV data collector.

See Data collectors and asset types.

The default data collector imports the data for the asset fields that are specific to the asset type from the data collection components. A data collection component is internally assigned to the import query based on the selected platform to collect the asset-specific data.

Table: Platform and data collectors

Platform

Data collector

ESM platform

ESM data collector

Oracle platform

Oracle data collector

SQL platform

SQL data collector

UNIX platform

UNIX data collector

Windows platform

Windows data collector

Custom platform

CSV data collector

Note:

If you create a custom asset type, the CSV data collector becomes the default data collector for the custom asset type.

Common platform

The Common platform is the platform that is used to import the common fields across the asset types.

CSV data collector

Consider the following example:

You select Oracle Configured Servers as the asset type and select the default data collector. The default data collector imports the data for the fields like Server Name, Server NetBIOS Name, Windows Domain Name or UNIX IP Address, OS Type. These fields are specific to the Oracle Configured Servers asset type.

The default data collector imports the data for the common fields from the CSV data collector. To import the data for the common fields of the selected asset type, you must configure the Common platform through CSV settings.

See Configuring Common platform through CSV settings.

See Importing the assets for the first time.

See Importing asset-specific fields from the default data collector.

See Importing asset-specific and common fields using the default data collector.