Asset management

Administrators must set up and design asset management systems so that the requirements for all teams in an enterprise are met.
Asset management involves a core set of tasks:

The following figure shows the relationship between the administrator and user roles in a deployment of IBM® Rational® Asset Manager.

The image
shows tasks for administrators to install, configure, and deploy Rational
Asset Manager, and also to manage the system. The image also shows
tasks that users perform, including search, download, create, modify,
and review assets. Click here for information on the installation roadmap Click here for information on administering the repository Click here for information on roles and permissions Click here for information on configuring Rational Asset Manager Click here for information on searching for assets Click here for information on downloading assets Click here for information on creating assets Click here for information on modifying assets Click here for information on reviewing assets
For more information about the responsibilities of each role, click the corresponding area in the image.
As the figure shows, administrators install and configure the system. They also set up the governance policies to determine how users can view and work with asset types in each community. Administrators perform these tasks:

A user's ability to perform actions in communities and assets is based on user roles. After users log on to Rational Asset Manager, depending on their role, they can find, download, review, modify, create, and publish assets.

While you design a system, you must analyze the impact of capturing asset relationships, planning for changes, and preventing changes that might negatively affect the system. To do an impact analysis, you can use a visual browse diagram.


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