Let Oomnitza be your single source of truth!
You'll get visibility of your network-connected assets and software assets as data from KACE by Quest is automatically transformed into consumable information and actionable insights.
Connect Oomnitza and KACE in minutes
Get the information and insights that you need to reduce costs and the time that you spend on administration tasks. You get:
- Dashboards and list views of your network assets and software assets
- Reports to share information with your colleagues and management
- Information that helps you:
- To assure software compliance
- To reduce security breaches
- To get information from ticketing and other systems so that you get a comprehensive view of the health of your assets
Before you start
To stream KACE data into Oomnitza, you must add credentials to the vault in Oomnitza.
You need the following credentials and connection information:
- Your KACE username and password
- The URL of your KACE instance
Information
When you register with KACE and install your KACE instance, you can access the documentation that you need to get your credentials and the URL of your instance.
Add credentials to the vault in Oomnitza
To authorize connections between Oomnitza and KACE, complete these steps:
- In Oomnitza, go to Configuration>Security>Credentials.
- Click Add new credential (+).
- Search for the integration, and then click the forward button > to select the integration.
- Enter the user name and password of your account
- Click Create.
Integration not in the list? Click Advanced Mode and complete these steps:
- Add the information details.
- Click the AUTHORIZATION tab.
- Ensure that Basic Auth is selected as the authorization type.
- Enter the user name and password of your account.
- Click Create.
See Oomnitza vault
Next step
You use the credentials that you added to create and customize your KACE integration with Oomnitza.
Creating the asset integration
When you create asset integrations, you can also stream information about the software, such as the software name and version into Oomnitza. This option is only available if you add the software module to Oomnitza.
Information
When creating the asset integration, check Software to enable the retrieval of desktop software.
- In Oomnitza, click Configuration> Integrations> Overview.
- Click Block view
- Scroll down to the Extended section for asset integrations.
- Click NEW INTEGRATION.
- Select the integration in the sidebar.
- Click ADD.
Integration details overview
More information is provided about the following fields to help you complete the integration:
Installation type
Select Cloud if you want to store credentials in the Oomnitza cloud.
Select Local if you want to store credentials locally. Local extended integrations do not support AWS and OAuth authentication. If you want to sync Oomnitza with vendor applications that require AWS or OAUTH authentication, select Cloud.
Integration preferences
By default, the option Create & Update option is selected. Select this option when you want to edit records and add new records. If you want to edit records and not add new records, select Update Only. If you only want to add new records, select Create Only.
Integration details
To review or update the integrations details, click Edit .
- Update the integration name if necessary.
- Select an installation type.
- For integration preferences, select an option.
- Enter the name of the integration user.
Credential details
If you selected Cloud as the installation type, choose one of the following options:
- Select the credentials that were created for the integration.
- Edit the credentials that were created for the integration.
- Create new credentials
Schedule
By default, data is streamed to Oomnitza once every day.
You can configure the schedule to meet your needs such as changing the interval or changing the time so that the data is streamed when your system isn't busy.
- Click the Edit
.
- Configure your schedule.
- Click Update.
Mappings
To map the fields to Oomnitza, click Edit .
You can define rules for your integration by selecting Edit integration
on the mapping page. For example, you may only want to run the integration if a certain contact or region exists. See Filtering integration results.
You can add new fields to your integration by selecting Add new field on the mapping page. All you need to do is specify the property name. See Creating custom API fields.
Creating custom mappings
Map the KACE fields to Oomnitza fields and create custom mappings to get the information that you need to manage your desktop assets.
Tip
To sync the information that is streamed from KACE to Oomnitza, select the Serial Number field.
You can retrieve information about these KACE fields in Oomnitza:
BIOS Version
Device Created
Device Name
ID
IP Address
KUID
Last Inventory
Last sync
Mac Address
Modified
Operating System
Serial Number
User
User Name
Launching the integration
Your integration is in Draft mode until the required mandatory fields are added. When added, click Launch to activate your integration.
If you selected Cloud as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration
If you selected Local as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration locally.
Viewing data ingested by Oomnitza
Viewing ingested asset data
For asset integrations, click Hardware. If the asset integration also ingests software data, click Software.
Viewing ingested user data
For user integrations, click People. If you chose the option to ingest User and SaaS user data, click Software > SaaS, click the SaaS app, and then click the Users tab.
Related Links
Unleash the power of Oomnitza
To get valuable actionable insights that help you manage your assets, learn how to:
- Configure dashboards for your assets
- Configure custom reports about your assets
See Getting started
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