Assets Schemes structure

[Marcela Junyent]

I am designing an IT Enterprise Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to manage assets in JSM Cloud.

I started with three basic templates from Atlassian: HR, Facilities, and IT Assets.

The IT department needs to manage and report on both hardware and software assets, as well as information about the employees assigned to these assets (using the HR template) and their locations (using the Facilities template).

To report on laptop costs by the department of the employees assigned to those laptops, I need to consolidate all the information from the department attribute within the assigned employee object in the IT Assets Laptop Object.

Since the Assets reporting feature does not support this, I plan to use EazyBI. However, to utilize EazyBI for more complex reporting, I need all the information in a single scheme.

We anticipate having at least 200,000 objects or more in the long term. Are there any reasons not to use a single scheme? What might be the downsides of this approach? Do you have any experience or recommendations regarding this strategy and the reporting limitations for assets?

[Janis Plume _eazyBI_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @marcela,

Currently, there is a limitation in eazyBI that does not allow detailed reporting on the cross-schema-linked objects. It is possible to have the report by the owner of the asset (if the employee is from another object schema), but not possible to go deeper by the owner attributes.

We have an improvement ticket in our backlog that would allow creating a report like your use case requires.

Kindly,

Janis, eazyBI support

[Trudy Claspill]

Hello @Marcela Junyent 

I don't have a comment on your approach to schemes, but I did want to check if you are aware of the price changes that have recently been implemented for Assets in Jira Service Management Cloud.

Assets are available only if you have a Premium or Enterprise subscription.

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/service-management/pricing

Additionally only the first 50k assets are "free". For the 50,001st asset and beyond you will be charged per asset.

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/jsm-cloud-pricing-packaging-update

[Marcela Junyent]

yes, I'm aware. But we will be using the assets for our CMDB.

Regards, Marcela