Introducing Inventory For Network Devices; About Inventory For Network Devices - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY 7.0 SP2 - FOR NETWORK DEVICES V1.0 Manual

Introducing Inventory for
Network Devices
This chapter includes the following topics:

About Inventory for Network Devices

Inventory for Network Devices gathers inventory data from discovered devices
in your network. This inventory is gathered from the devices that are not managed
through the Altiris Agent. Because a management agent is not required, this
inventory is considered an agentless inventory.
Agentless inventory gathers inventory on the devices that are already discovered
and exist as resources in the Symantec Management Platform's Configuration
Management Database (CMDB). Generally, you use agentless inventory to gather
inventory on the devices that are discovered using the Network Discovery
component of the Symantec Management Platform.
This inventory is performed by running agentless inventory tasks on discovered
devices and reporting the data to the Notification Server. The discovery data is
stored in the CMDB. You configure the automated tasks that are scheduled to run
at regular intervals to keep your inventory data current.
You can gather inventory on the following types of devices:
About Inventory for Network Devices
Components of Inventory for Network Devices
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