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Get the information and insights that you need to reduce costs and the time that you spend on administration tasks such as:
- Configurable dashboards and list views of key asset and software information
- Configurable reports to share information about assets and software with your colleagues and management such as corporate-wide reports that detail the distribution and status of the assets and software in your environment
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Creating the asset integration
Before you start
Best practice
For the integration with Oomnitza, create a dedicated user account.
Lansweeper uses OAuth 2.0 authentication. A client id and a secret are required to access the service. You can copy the client id and secret when editing an application, as documented in the Lansweeper API documentation.
Adding the credentials
To stream Lansweeper user data into Oomnitza, complete the following steps:
- Click Settings > Credentials, and then click Add new credential (+).
- Add the information details.
- Click the AUTHORIZATION tab.
- Select OAuth 2.0 as the authorization type.
- From the SaaS list, select Lansweeper.Lansweeper OAuth 2.0.
- Enter your Client ID and Client Secret.
- Authenticate the connection.
- Click CREATE.
Next
You use the credentials that you added to create and customize your Lansweeper integrations with Oomnitza.
Creating the asset integration
To configure the integration for the Lansweeper Asset Load, complete the following steps:
- In Oomnitza, click Settings > Integrations.
- Click Integrations List View
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- On the Integrations page, scroll down to the Extended section for Assets.
- Click NEW INTEGRATION.
- In the New Asset Integration sidebar, click Lansweeper.
- To integrate Oomnitza with the Lansweeper Asset Load, click APPLY and then click NEXT twice.
On the connect page, complete the following steps to connect the integration:
- Enter a descriptive name for the integration such as Lansweeper Assets. This name will be displayed on the Integrations page once the setup is complete.
- Select Cloud as the installation type.
- From the Credentials list, select the credentials from the Oomnitza vault that you added for the connection. For further information, refer to Adding the credentials.
- From the Integration Preferences list, select Create & Update.
- Enter the name of the user of the integration.
- Enter your Site ID.
- Click Next.
Creating custom mappings
Map Lansweeper fields to Oomnitza fields to get the asset information that you need. For the field mapping, it is recommended to follow these steps:
- Click Smart Mapping.
- Create a custom mapping for the Lansweeper Name. To do this, complete the following steps:
- Select the down arrow on the Name field that you want to map.
- Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
- Change the name of the field to Lansweeper Asset Name.
- Click CREATE.
- You have the option to create custom mappings to map any other field that you want to add to Oomnitza. To create an optional custom mapping, do the following:
- Click the down arrow on the field that you want to map.
- Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
- Change the name of the field.
- Click CREATE.
- Map and assign a sync key to the Name field.
- Click NEXT.
Tracking information for asset loads
When the integration is run, you can track the name of the credentials that were used and the source of the data. To do this, you map the following fields to Oomnitza:
- Connect: Credentials
- Connect: Site ID
Custom mappings
Agent ID
Connect: Credentials
Connect: Site ID
Connector Sync Time
Description
First Seen
IP Address
Mac
Name
Type
User Domain
When you've completed mapping Lansweeper fields to Oomnitza fields, click NEXT.
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.
- Configure your schedule.
- Click FINISH.
Result
A new tile is created for the integration on the Integrations page.
What to do next
If you want to see what information is collected now, click the tile on the Integrations page and click RUN NOW.
If you want to change the integration settings, you can click a navigation link on the page, such as 4 Mappings, and edit the settings.
Tip
To view the information that is collected about your mobile assets, click Assets.
Creating workflows
You can create asset workflows to reduce your workload and automate complex and repetitive tasks. For example, provided that you have the fields mapped in your integration, you could trigger a workflow to notify you every time a new asset is onboarded. To create a notification workflow, complete the following steps:
- From the menu, click Assets > Workflow.
- Click Add (+). The Begin and End blocks are automatically added to the sandbox.
- Enter the name and a description of the workflow.
- Edit the Begin block by adding the rules that will trigger the workflow. For information on the type of triggers you can create, refer to Begin Block.
- Click the Blocks tab, and drag and drop the Notification block onto the canvas.
- Customize your Notification block so that you can receive a notification when the Begin block is triggered. For information on customizing the Notification block, refer to Notification Workflow Block.
- Connect the blocks.
- Validate, launch, and save your workflow.
For further information on workflows see: Understanding workflows
Workflow block overview
Unleash the power of Oomnitza
To get valuable actionable insights that help you manage your assets, learn how to:
- Configure dashboards for your users and software
- Configure custom reports about your users and software
- Create workflows to automate tasks
See Getting started for more information.
Did you know
You can also create extended connector integrations for Lansweeper users. Creating an extended integration for Lansweeper users
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