Collector Reference: IT Asset Management

The Snipe-IT collector discovers IT asset inventory from Snipe-IT, an open-source IT Asset Management (ITAM) platform. It provides the financial source of truth for hardware purchase costs, depreciation schedules, software licenses, and maintenance contracts.

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Snipe-IT Collector

The Snipe-IT collector connects to the Snipe-IT REST API and discovers hardware assets, software licenses, and maintenance contracts. It handles Snipe-IT's nested API structures (flattening model, manufacturer, category, and status objects), resolves depreciation schedules from separate API lookups, and normalizes financial fields.

CI Types Discovered (3)

Authentication

• Snipe-IT API Token — Personal API token generated in Snipe-IT (Settings > API). Requires read access to hardware, licenses, and maintenances endpoints.
• Token is passed as Authorization: Bearer <token> header.

What Gets Collected

Hardware Assets:

• Config (tracked): Asset tag, serial number, model, manufacturer, category, status, purchase cost, purchase date, order number, warranty months/expiration, depreciation schedule, supplier, location, assigned user, custom fields
• Metrics (not tracked): Checkout counter, checkin counter, last audit date

Licenses:

• Config (tracked): License name, product key, seat count, category, manufacturer, purchase cost, purchase date, expiration date
• Metrics (not tracked): Free seats count, checkout count

Maintenance Contracts:

• Config (tracked): Title, cost, start/completion dates, warranty flag, maintenance type, supplier, associated asset name

Key Relationships

• Maintenance contracts depends_on Hardware assets (matched by asset name)

Configuration

Configured via Settings → Collectors when adding a Snipe-IT source.

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Related Documentation

• Managing Collectors — Collector health and lifecycle
• CI Types — Complete CI type reference