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Joe_Tran's avatar
Joe_Tran
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7 years ago

Reports - Device Inventory - Why define a datasource?

Scenario -- I have a device group with a mix of AWS EC2 with Local Collector, EC2 with only the cloud collector, RDS instances, and Load Balancers. I went and created a device inventory report to g...
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Kerry_DeVilbiss's avatar
Kerry_DeVilbiss
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7 years ago

@Joe Tran - that might be for the inclusion of instances that contain device information - which I believe comes from the time before PropertySources existed. For example, the Device Component Inventory DataSource often returns the serial number of a device as the name of an Instance:

That is a best guess - that DataSource also populates with installed hardware, depending on the device.