Hardware Inventory Overview
Hardware inventory operations provide you with up-to-date information on the hardware of Client PCs. They collect hardware asset information, such as network shares, drive sizes, video settings, and key system details from Client PCs, and automatically detect and highlight configuration changes.
The stored inventory data can be used to plan software installations and upgrades, hardware upgrades and to help answer support problems. It can also help manage your assets by enabling you to group PCs by class, such as processor type, or operating system, and to produce change history reports.
Three variants of the Update Hardware Inventory operation are supplied in Vector AM:
Update Hardware Inventory Interactively displays the latest inventory results. Use this operation when you want to check the results of a scan before saving the data to the Site database.
Update Hardware Inventory saves the inventory results to the Site database. To schedule this operation as a job, right-click the operation icon and choose Submit Job from the shortcut menu.
Get User Data distributes User Prompt Files to Client PCs. The prompt file is displayed to Client users when they next log on to their PC.
Related Topics
Customizing Update Hardware Inventory Operations
Hardware Inventory Report Tokens