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About This Guide
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1 Overview
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1.1
Scanning for Hardware Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.2
Scanning for Software Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3
Scanning for Demographic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.4
Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2 Scanning Managed Devices
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2.1
Configuring an Inventory Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1.1
Configuring a Scan for the Management Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.1.2
Configuring a Scan for Devices in a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1.3
Configuring a Scan for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2
Scheduling an Inventory Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.2.1
Configuring an Inventory Scan Schedule for the Management Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.2.2
Configuring an Inventory Scan Schedule for Devices in a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.2.3
Configuring an Inventory Scan Schedule for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
2.3
Running an Inventory Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.4
Viewing an Inventory Report for a Managed Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.5
Editing a Managed Device’s Inventory Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3 Scanning Inventory Only Devices
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3.1
Configuring an Inventory Only Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.2
Scheduling an Inventory Only Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.2.1
To Configure an Inventory Only Scan Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.3
Viewing an Inventory Report for an Inventory Only Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.4
Editing the Demographic Data of an Inventory Only Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.5
Enabling Reconciliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
3.6
Using the Portable Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.6.1
Creating the Portable Collector for a Windows Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.6.2
Running the Portable Collector on a Windows Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.6.3
Running the Portable Collector on an OSX Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.6.4
Importing Data Gathered with the Portable Collector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4 Scanning Demographic Data
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4.1
Configuring the Collection Data Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.1.1
Configuring the Collection Data Form for the Management Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
4.1.2
Configuring the Collection Data Form for Devices in a Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.1.3
Configuring the Collection Data Form for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4.2
Deploying the Collection Data Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.3
Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.3.1
Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form for the Management Zone 69
4.3.2
Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form for Devices in a Folder . . . 76
4.3.3
Scheduling the Deployment of the Collection Data Form for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . 83
4.4
Deploying the Data Collection Form Using a Quick Task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.5
Deploying the Data Collection Form Using a Device Task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
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