2.1 Checklist for Building Your Asset Map

Use the following checklist to help you discover, add, and organize your assets, agents, and endpoints. While you can add assets at any time, the most efficient way to set up your asset map initially is to follow these steps.

	Checklist Items
	Determine how you want to group your assets in the asset map. See Organizing Endpoints into Groups.
	Create and organize your asset map groups. For more information, see Creating a Managed Group.
	Add known, unmanaged assets: To add individual assets, see Manually Adding Known Assets To add multiple assets at once, see Using a Formatted File to Add Known Assets
	Find unmanaged assets in your environment. For more information, see Discovering Unmanaged Assets in Your Environment.
	Deploy Windows agent to unmanaged assets. For more information, see Deploying Windows Agents to the Managed Assets.
	Add the discovered assets to your asset map. For more information, see Registering Managed Assets.
	Register the discovered and added assets. See Registering Managed Assets.
	Find additional endpoints on your managed assets. For more information, see Discovering Endpoints on Managed Assets.
	Move your assets into the managed groups appropriate for your environment. See Moving Existing Endpoints into Groups.
	Store a copy of your asset map for future reference. Saving Asset Map Data