Manual asset merging

In most cases, the device identification mechanism in TNI correctly identifies and merges assets and their snapshots when they are imported or added to the Storage. However, sometimes you may need to manually merge several assets.

This option becomes available when several assets are selected in the Network tree.

To merge the assets, follow these steps:

Select the asset to use as the main one and open the context menu.
From the menu, select the Merge assets option.
Select which asset will be the main one from the submenu. The main asset (parent) will retain all information manually added to it: notes, special fields, barcodes, license records, etc.

Attention!
Merging will remove any manually added information from the child asset(s).

The Merge assets option will not be available if a group is selected.

To merge assets, make sure that they are all of the same type (for example, only Windows devices or Linux devices are selected). If the assets you want to combine were previously added to the network map, then after manual merging, all nodes will be replaced with the asset selected as the main one. The connections on the map will be saved.

Unscanned placeholders can be merged with assets of any type.

Custom assets cannot be merged with each other or with other device types.