Table Of Contents - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - ASSET INVENTORY REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

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About This Guide
1 Overview
1.1 Scanning for Hardware Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.2 Scanning for Software Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3 Scanning for Demographic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.4 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2 Scanning Managed Devices
2.1 Configuring an Inventory Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1.1 Configuring a Scan for the Management Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1.2 Configuring a Scan for Devices in a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1.3 Configuring a Scan for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2 Scheduling an Inventory Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.2.1 Configuring an Inventory Scan Schedule for the Management Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.2.2 Configuring an Inventory Scan Schedule for Devices in a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2.3 Configuring an Inventory Scan Schedule for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.3 Running an Inventory Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.4 Viewing an Inventory Report for a Managed Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.5 Editing a Managed Device's Inventory Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3 Scanning Inventory Only Devices
3.1 Configuring an Inventory Only Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.2 Scheduling an Inventory Only Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.2.1 To Configure an Inventory Only Scan Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.3 Viewing an Inventory Report for an Inventory Only Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.4 Editing the Demographic Data of an Inventory Only Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.5 Enabling Reconciliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
3.6 Using the Portable Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.6.1 Creating the Portable Collector for a Windows Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.6.2 Running the Portable Collector on a Windows Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.6.3 Running the Portable Collector on an OSX Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.6.4 Importing Data Gathered with the Portable Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4 Scanning Demographic Data
4.1 Configuring the Collection Data Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.1.1 Configuring the Collection Data Form for the Management Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.1.2 Configuring the Collection Data Form for Devices in a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.1.3 Configuring the Collection Data Form for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.2 Deploying the Collection Data Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.3 Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.3.1 Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form for the Management Zone 69
4.3.2 Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form for Devices in a Folder . . . 76
4.3.3 Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.4 Deploying the Data Collection Form Using a Quick Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.5 Deploying the Data Collection Form Using a Device Task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
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