Turning on IT asset management in Zendesk (EAP)

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IT asset management (ITAM) is the process of managing IT assets through their lifecycle, designed specifically for employee services. By managing your IT assets in Zendesk, you can ensure agents have access to view and manage the latest asset data without having to switch tools.

This article contains the following topics:

• Essential facts about managing IT assets in Zendesk
• Turning on IT asset management
• Monitoring your IT asset management usage
• Related resources

Essential facts about managing IT assets in Zendesk

Before turning on and using ITAM in Zendesk, it's important to consider the following:

• When you turn on IT asset management, the following changes occur in your account:
  • The Asset types, Asset fields, and Asset Locations pages are added to Admin Center.
  • Four predefined asset types are created: Hardware, Mobile, Desktop, and Laptop. The name and asset type for Hardware can't be changed, and the asset can't be deleted. However, Mobile, Desktop, and Laptop can be edited or deleted as needed.
  • Standard asset fields are created. These can't be edited or deleted.
  • Two ticket lookup relationship fields are created, but they aren't automatically added to your ticket forms. One with Asset as the target object in which you'd select a specific IT asset record related to the ticket, and the other with Asset type as the target object in which you'd select the asset type related to the ticket.
• The following limits apply:
  • You can create a maximum of 50 asset types.
  • You can have up to 100 asset fields, counting standard and custom fields.
  • You can add up to 10,000 assets and locations.

Turning on IT asset management

To participate in the IT asset management EAP, you must turn on the feature.

To turn on IT asset management

1. In Admin Center, click Asset management in the sidebar, then select Assets > Overview.
2. Select Sign up for early access to IT asset management.
3. Agree to the EAP terms and conditions and click Get started.

   It can take a couple minutes for the ITAM functionality to appear in your system. You may need to refresh the page.

Monitoring your IT asset management usage

Admins can use the Asset overview page to monitor how many asset types, locations, and fields they have in the account.

Related resources

To learn more about using IT asset management, see:

• Creating and configuring asset types (EAP)
• Using assets in ticket workflows (EAP)