CA Client Automation - 14.0

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Inventory Detection Modules of Asset Management

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Asset Management provides a set of predefined detection modules that collect inventory information like general, performance, printer, WBEM, user account, and user environment inventories.
The specifications for collecting the inventory information are as follows:
  • An executable file that has the code for collecting the values. This file can be different based on the operating system of the Agent. Asset Management invokes the appropriate file that is based on the operating system of the asset.
  • A configuration tool that you can launch and select the items that you want to inventory.
  • Manually provide the configuration information.
Configure Inventory Detection Module
By configuring the existing inventory detection modules, you can collect extra inventory information. A best example is configuring the WBEM Inventory module. This module collects the hardware inventory information from the Windows assets. You can configure or create a new module that is based on this module and collect extra inventory information.
Be careful while enabling extra inventory data. Configuring a lot of information can cause heavy load on the asset and considerably reduce the network performance as the collected, transferred, and imported data can be huge.
To configure the WBEM inventory module
  1. Double-click the
    WBEM inventory
     module.
    The
    Properties for WBEM
     Inventory dialog appears.
  2. Click
    Launch
     in the
    Configuration
     tab.
    The
    WMI Configuration
     window appears.
  3. Select the inventory items that you want to add to the module and click
    OK
    .
    The inventory detection module is configured with the additional inventory items. You can add the WBEM module to any of the collect tasks so that the assets running the collect task returns the additional inventory items.
View or Modify Inventory Detection Modules
By default, the detection modules define the executables from which the inventory information is collected. If you have any source for collecting such inventory, you can modify the executable file name that is associated with a detection module. You can also launch the configuration tool to collect extra inventory information and specify the platforms on which the module is supposed to run.
To view or modify an inventory detection module, double-click the module. The Properties for Detection Module dialog appear. Modify the settings in this dialog as you require.