Overview

The EasyCubed Asset Management Module leverages your Active Directory to store data about assets.  The extension creates new classes in your schema:

easycubed-Asset This class stores all details about a specific asset in your environment, including things like Serial Number, Asset Tag, Location, and Model.
An object of this class can also be linked to a single Computer object in the domain in order to directly link a Computer object to details about the underlying Asset.
easycubed-AssetAssignment This class contains a link to an easycubed-Asset object and contains a date that represents when the asset was assigned.  An easycubed-AssetAssignment object exists as a child object to the User object representing the user to which the asset is assigned.

Updating the Active Directory Schema

First perform the steps in the section Verify Active Directory functionality before you apply any schema extensions of the following Microsoft article:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ad/how-to-extend-the-schema

Also review and verify the prerequisites for updating an Active Directory schema here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ad/prerequisites-for-installing-a-schema-extension

Importing the LDF File to Update the Schema

  1. Download and unzip the EasyCubed Asset Module Schema Extension file.
  2. On the Domain Controller in your environment which holds the Schema Master role, and logged in as a user that is a member of the domain Schema Administrators group, launch a command prompt as administrator.
  3. Change Directory (cd) to the location where the LDF file was downloaded.

  4. Run the following command but first replace <DomainDN> with the Distinguished Name of your Active Directory domain (i.e. in the format 'dc=fabrikam,dc=com'):

    ldifde -i -f easycubed_asset_schema_extension.ldf -j . -c "cn=schema,CN=Configuration,DC=x" "CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,<DomainDN>"

  5. Verify that the schema was updated successfully by reviewing the output of the command.

Asset reports, creating and assigning assets, and searching for assets are all enabled automatically in the EasyCubed UMS when the schema extension is applied to your Active Directory and you are using the Active Directory connector.