Operating system item

Tab name

Description

Main

The configuration item attributes and values.

Description of operating system item attributes

Event log

All events related to the operating system item are recorded and represented here.

Bindings

Here you can see information about

-Assets that have this operating system assigned for initial installation

-Packages that support this operating system

-Device usages, asset models, organisations, and common start/ends that have installation packages assigned for this operating system.

Analyze >Identified assets

This view displays the assets that are using the operating system. By clicking the "Show history" link next to view tools, you can see a bar graph about operating systems in use per hardware category. The graph can be sorted by day, week, or month.

Analyze > Installation log

This view shows an installation log of the operating system. Use this view to see when the operating system has been installed and whereto it has been installed. You can also click the "show history" link next to view tools to see historical data of total amount of initial installations of this operating system by per month.

Analyze > Supported asset models

Here you can see information about driver situation on different asset models that have assets with this operating system assigned for initial installation.

Task

Description

Change status

Activate or deactivate operating system.

Copy bindings

This is used to copy bindings from some existing operating system. The  bindings can only be copied to operating systems that are not active.

Remove

Removes the operating system.

Notice that you may first have to remove the bindings to installation packages before you can remove the operating system. You can see the bindings from the Operating system item's Bindings tab. You may then remove the bindings through the Packages view by first selecting the packages in the view, and then choosing  "Tasks > Edit attributes > Remove supported OS..." from the view toolbar.