Collecting Software And Hardware Inventory; Understanding The Zenworks Handheld Management Components - Novell ZENWORKS HANDELD MANAGEMENT 7 SP1 IR4 Installation Manual

Benefit Description
Monitoring After software distributions are run, result information is sent to the ZENworks
Handheld Management Server, so you can analyze the state of distributions and
devices, including:
Reporting ZENworks Handheld Management reporting provides detailed reports about your
handheld devices and your entire ZENworks Handheld Management system.
For example, you can easily generate a report about all software distributions that
have run for a specific handheld device or you can generate a report about all
applications installed on your handheld devices.
Automatic The ZENworks Handheld Management querying capabilities allow administrators to
Grouping automatically create criteria-based device groups so they do not need to create
them manually.
For example, administrators can use queries to help them automatically populate
device groups so that all devices with StrongARM processors are in one group, all
MIPS devices are in another group, and so forth.

1.2.4 Collecting Software and Hardware Inventory

Managing software and hardware assets is a critical function. By keeping up-to-date inventories,
you can use ZENworks Handheld Management to do the following:
Ensure licensing compliance.
ZENworks Handheld Management identifies the number of handheld devices and the number
of copies of an application that are installed on those devices so you can easily verify the
license count against your internal records.
Plan for software and hardware upgrades.
If you decide to update to a specific version of an application or you decide that a certain
amount of RAM is required for a new application that has been deployed, ZENworks Handheld
Management helps you to quickly identify which handheld devices need to be upgraded and
how many components you need to order.
1.3 Understanding the ZENworks Handheld
Management Components
The following sections provide an overview of the key components of ZENworks Handheld
Management:
Section 1.3.1, "ConsoleOne," on page 14
Section 1.3.2, "ZENworks Handheld Management Server," on page 14
Section 1.3.3, "Handheld Client," on page 14
Section 1.3.4, "Access Point," on page 14
Overall status for all distributions in the system
Details about failed distributions
Distribution output
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