Depreciation

Depreciation settings allow you to run automatic batch jobs that perform scheduled depreciation calculations against CMDB items.

These jobs can be filtered to run for specific CMDB items, CMDB Item types, Users, organizations and/or locations. It provides a flexible automated system for monitoring and maintaining depreciations against your organization's IT infrastructure.

To configure depreciation, you will need to carry out the folowing:

1. Define your CMDB Items.

2. Create one or more depreciation schedules.

3. Define the parameters for one or more methods of depreciation.

4. Link the schedules and methods to CMDB Item Types.

5. Create and define your batch run parameters for each depreciation schedule. This executes the depreciation calculation against the CMDB Items.

6. View a log of all the batch runs.