Viewing Saved Hardware Inventory Information
When you install the Vector AM Client on a PC, or run the Update Hardware Inventory operation on a Client, Vector AM collects information on its hardware and saves this information in the Site database. This information includes the details of the Client's processor, memory, disk drives and video settings. In addition, if you have used User Prompting to collect information from Client users, the hardware inventory also includes any responses they have supplied. You can view the saved hardware information at any time from the Console's Clients folder.
To display hardware inventory information from the Site database:
1 Locate the Client you want to work with in the All Clients folder.
2 Right-click the Client, and choose Hardware Details from the shortcut menu. The Hardware Inventory window is displayed. Click a category heading to display the associated details.
3 To display the history of changes for the selected Client, click Changes.
4 To display the details of another Client, select Other stored in the Inventory for list.
Comparing Client Inventories
In addition to displaying inventory data for individual Clients, the Hardware Inventory window can compare Clients. This enables you to check Client PCs against standard PC inventories and to search for problems caused by different system configurations.
To compare the currently selected Client with another Client:
1 Select an entry in the Compare with list. Choose:
Other stored to select the Client you want to compare with the current Client.
Clientname stored to compare the current Client with a previously opened Client.
2 A red indicator
is shown against each section that contains one or more differences. Click the appropriate button to display
the items that are different.
Individual differences between items within each section are indicated by a smaller version of the button. To display the data of the comparison Client, select the adjacent button.
3 To cancel the comparison, select None in the Compare with list.
Related Topics
Customizing the Update Hardware Inventory Operations