Customizing the Update Hardware Inventory Operation: Reporting Tab

Use the Reporting tab to configure the Update Hardware Inventory operation to automatically generate a report whenever you run it.

To generate a report:

1    Right-click an Update Hardware Inventory operation, and choose Customize from the shortcut menu.

2    Select the Reporting tab.

3    Select Enable Reporting.

4    In the Output report file name/token string field, type the location and name of the file in which you want to save the inventory reports for the selected PCs. Alternatively, to create a separate inventory report file for each PC, enter a file name token. For example, to create a separate report for each PC in the Sales department, enter SALES$NODE.RPT.

5    If you want to append the report to an existing file, select Append to report.

6    In the Format string field, enter the layout of the report you want to create. Alternatively, click Load File to load a previously defined layout from a file.

Example Hardware Inventory Report Format

7    Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog.

Note

To disable the automatic report, deselect Enable Reporting.

Related Topics

Hardware Inventory Report Tokens