Release Notes for Generic Inventory Data Provider

Fixed problem

• PRB38753: Import runs into a concurrency exception.

Fixed problems 

• PRB38627: Generic Inv. Data provider removes previously stored MAC addresses
• PRB38638: Generic Inventory Data Provider does not remove obsolete installations when LastSyncDate is missing
• PRB38597: Inventory Import Error | The given path's format is not supported
• PRB38549: Automatic import of the main user cannot be deactivated when correct principal user is already set by SCCM

Fixed problem

• PRB37781: Generic Inventory might run into import error "Column Priority..." while importing computers

Fixed problem

• PRB38463: Generic Inventory Data Provider unnecessarily overwrites SPSComputerClassMemoryModule attributes

Fixed problem

• PRB38369: Generic Inventory Data Provider always updates LastChangeDate of Installation records

Improvements

• Assignment of principal user for imported devices can now be managed in the system settings of the Assets application.
• The same service connection can be used in several configurations of one data provider.

Improvements

• The Included Computers and Excluded Computers grids were removed from the configuration
• The Prevent device name from updating setting was introduced
• User interface improvements for the Generic Inventory Data Provider configuration

Fixed problems

• PRB38301: Generic Inventory Data Provider- issue cased by no installation applications reported
• PRB38276: Generic Inventory Data Provider runs into "error converting string into uniqueidentifier" when matching by a relation

Fixed problem

• PRB38028: Generic Inventory Data Provider sets device to deleted status, if the import of that record fails

Fixed problems

• PRB37984: Generic Inventory ignores Management Type when reactivating assets in decommissioned status
• PRB37996: Generic inventory: Mapping of Loggings mail fail with error System.Data.EvaluateException: Cannot perform '=' operation on System.DateTime and System.String
• PRB37973: Generic Inventory Data Provider: Set First Scan Date despite if it's a new or already existing asset

Fixed problem

PRB37886: Generic Inventory Data Provider overwrites multifragment attributes with identical values

Improvement

The post-processing workflow starts only after checking that the import of assets has been finished.

Fixed problem

PRB37810: Updated Empirum Inventory / Generic Inventory package can in special situation cause high memory consumption

Fixed problems

• PRB37595: Empirum Inventory Data Provider updates Computers, regardless of LastScanDate
• PRB37226: Generic Inventory - wrong detection type used with Empirum Data Provider

Fixed problems 

• PRB37607: Generic Inventoryprovider: proccessing of some assets with status update error on spscommonclassbase
• PRB37586: Devices Importing from Intune are set to Manually

Fixed problem 

PRB37653: Generic Inventory Data Provider fails to import large XML files - Error 400 (Bad Request)

Improvements

• Principal user assignment was implemented for imported devices
• Concurrency and timeout expired exceptions were fixed

Fixed problem

PRB37481: Baramundi DP import fails after updating Generic Inventory DP to version 1.28.1.1

Improvements

• Performance improvement by adjusting the import engine. This change will affect all data providers that use the Generic Inventory extension to import computers with inventory data.
• Additional entries are logged into HostCommon.log.
• Last result is now displayed for configuration and computers.

Fixed problems

• PRB37255: Generic Dataprovider: SPSInventoryClassApplication Detectiontype is not getting processed
• PRB37206: Generic Inventory Extension overwrites SKU assignment for computers
• PRB37383: Intune Integration does not collect Principal Users, overwrites target objects with NULL values

Fixed problem

PRB37079: Generic Dataprovider sets LastScanDate=LastImportDate if source is not delivering any scandate.

Import of AUT data

Application usage tracking data can now be imported using the extension.

Operating system information added as an installed application and a fingerprint

OS of a computer is imported as an installation and a fingerprint that are updated in case of updates of the OS.

Improvements

• Improved SQL queries for matching criteria.
• Device status is updated based on the configuration settings if device has been removed and then is delivered again.
• SPSInventoryClassBase.FirstScanDate is set when creating computers.

Extension for importing external computer inventory data

This extension supports building standardized integration of external computer inventory data. It is a computer inventory import framework for custom data providers. This extension provides all logic to store collected inventory data safely and consistently in the database of Matrix42 Enterprise Service Management.

Custom data provider and custom data collector workflow

The extension contains a template of the data collector workflow and an inventory data provider configuration which need to be set up to fetch data from an external source of your choice.