Scanning Demographic Data On An Inventory Only Device - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - ASSET INVENTORY REFERENCE 10.3 30-03-2010 Reference Manual

5 Click Hide to close the dialog box.
4.6 Scanning Demographic Data on an Inventory
Only Device
Inventory Only Devices don't use the Collection Data Form to gather demographic data.
Demographic data for an Inventory Only device must be entered manually into a file named
demodata.txt
You can scan for the demographic data only on Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, and Linux.
To enable demographic data to be gathered from an Inventory Only device:
1 Create a file called
The file should reside in the following location:
For Windows,
For Macintosh,
For UNIX/Linux,
2 Enter demographic data into the file using the format shown below.
The example below shows all the fields that can be included as well as various field formats;
however, only those fields that are actually entered need to be in the file. Examples of field
formats that are shown is as follows:
nc_user.ADF10 shows how to enter a date
nc_user.ADF11 shows how to enter a time
nc_workstation.ADF10 shows how to enter currency
nc_workstation.ASF11 shows how to enter a number (decimal or integer)
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and saved on the device. This data is then gathered during an inventory scan.
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demodata.txt
C:\Program Files\Novell\ZENworks\bin
/usr/local/novell/zenworks/umia
/opt/novell/zenworks/umia