OID's are generally provided by the hardware manufacturers, or can be found in so-called OID repositories, where collections of MIB trees and the corresponding OIDs can be accessed.

Scenario: Add the IP of an HP switch and then choose the correct template.

For some strange reason software inventory only works when a machine is online, yet the information is already in your database but you cannot report on an individual offline asset.

If a machine breaks and is replaced by another asset, we need to know what software was installed on the machine before it broke.