Asset ID for Printers

tibyannie

Hi,

Is it possible to introduce an asset number field for Printer area in Assets. This is for the printers that are automatically detected by SolarWinds. 

Currently there is no way to identifty a printer other than entering it manually as an asset in the other assets area. 

Kind regards

Tiby

ChuckZane

In my opinion, the Printers Asset screen has some bigger issues than just lacking an asset ID number.  If you look closely, it's not actually a list of printers, it is a list the printer driver names assigned on the computers that were scanned with the Discovery Agent.  The same "printer" will be listed over and over again using whichever names were assigned to the installed printer device by the users on their PC's.  Instead of listing installed/named printer drivers, each printer should be created as a hardware asset, and then have each driver install listed in a sub-panel/tab similar to the way PC's are listed and then there is a software tab within each PC asset.