Viewing The Inventory Data Stored In The Zenworks 7 Server Management Or Zenworks; Desktop Management Inventory Database; Understanding The Compressed Scan Data File - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 09-25-2008 Administration Manual

34.4.2 Understanding the Compressed Scan Data File

The Sender compresses the scan data files (.str) into a .zip file. This .zip file is again
compressed with the .prp file into a .zip file. The .zip file (containing the .zip files and
.prp) is named using the following naming conventions:
scheduledtime_inventoryservername_treename_storedstatus.zip
where scheduledtime refers to the date and time when the .zip file is created, inventoryservername
refers to the Inventory server on which the .zip file was compressed, treename refers to the unique
tree name in which the .zip file is currently located, storedstatus refers to the storage status of the
.zip file, and zip is the file extension for the compressed files. The storedstatus displays 0, 1, or 2.
0 indicates the .zip file has not yet been stored. 1 indicates the .zip file will be stored for the first
time in the Inventory server. 2 indicates the .zip file has already been stored once.
The .zip filename changes depending on if the database is attached to the Inventory server.
The .zip file contains the .zip files and a property file. The property file is named using the
following conventions:
scheduledtime_inventoryservername.prp
The property file contains the scheduled time, Inventory server name, and signature. The signature
helps to authenticate the .zip file.
Each .zip file can contain a maximum of 50 .str files.
34.5 Viewing the Inventory Data Stored in the
ZENworks 7 Server Management or ZENworks 7

Desktop Management Inventory Database

You can view the inventory data stored in the ZENworks 7 Server Management or ZENworks 7
Desktop Management Inventory database using the following Inventory ConsoleOne
Inventory Query
Inventory Reports
For more information on how to invoke and work with these utilities, see the "Workstation
Inventory" section in the
www.novell.com/documentation/zenworks7)or the see the "Server Inventory" section in the
ZENworks 7 Server Management Administration Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/
zenworks7).
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