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1.2 Inventory Reports

ZENworks Configuration Management allows you to take an inventory of all the devices in your
Management Zone, including data on hardware, software, and demographics. An inventory scan
allows you to collect data from managed devices in your Management Zone. An inventory only scan
allows you to scan devices in the zone that don't have the ZENworks Adaptive Agent installed but
do have the Inventory Module installed. This type of scan is useful for devices running Windows*,
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NetWare , and Mac OS*X.
For more information about Inventory Reports, see the
Asset Inventory

1.3 Web Intelligence Documents

Web Intelligence provides you an easy, interactive, and flexible user interface to build and analyze
reports on data over the Web, on secured intranets and extranets. You can create Web Intelligence
documents by selecting the ZENworks universe in ZENworks Reporting Server InfoView and
building one or more queries to define the document data.

1.4 Universe

Universes are patented Business Objects technology. They act as a semantic layer between the user
and a database. A universe is a file that contains the following:
SQL structures called objects that map to actual SQL structures in the database, such as
columns, tables, and database functions. Objects are grouped into classes. Objects and classes
are both visible to Web Intelligence users.
A schema of the tables and joins used in the database. Objects are built from the database
structures that you include in your schema. The schema is only available to Designer users. It is
not visible to Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence* users.
Web Intelligence users connect to a universe, and run queries against a database. They can perform
data analysis and create reports by using the objects in a universe, without seeing, or needing to
know anything about, the underlying table schemas in the database.
A universe provides an interface for Web Intelligence users to run queries against a database so as to
create reports and perform data analysis.

1.5 Central Configuration Manager

The Central Configuration Manager is a server-management tool on Windows that allows you to
start or stop the Server Intelligence Agent.
For more information about the Central Configuration Manager, see the
XI 3.1 Administrator's Guide (http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/xi3-
1_bip_admin_en.pdf).

1.6 Reporting Terminology

Following are the terms associated with the ZENworks Reporting Server reports:
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ZENworks 10 Configuration Management
BusinessObjects Enterprise