An administrator must be up-to-date on the information about the software and hardware used across the organization. Manual compilation and reconciliation of IT assets is effort-intensive and error-prone. Desktop Central's Web-based Inventory Management not only helps automate this task, but also provides out-of-the-box Network Inventory reports. Inventory Management Features.
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Inventory complete hardware and software. Scan the systems periodically to collect the hardware and software details. Manage software licenses. Detect Prohibited Software in the network. Look at software usage statistics. Alert on specific events. Get comprehensive reports on hardware, software inventory, and license compliance Software Inventory.
In Desktop Central:.: Software usage details in each computer like, rarely used, occasionally used, or frequently used. Software Details: View commercial/non-commercial software usage information in the network that include details such as Vendor Name, Installation Date, and Software Version. option to view the compliant (including over-licensed software) and non-compliant(under-licensed) software used in the network. details found in the network.: Track the warranty information of the hardware assets managed by your organization. Hardware Inventory. The provides complete details about the hardware used in the network. The hardware inventory reports helps the administrators gain instant access to deatils.
Some of the reports include:. Sort. Sort and Service Pack version.
Sort based on. Sort. Scheduled Inventory Scanning Desktop Central scans the Windows desktops/servers in the network periodically to collect the hardware and software details and stores them in the databse. The inventory scanning interval is flexible and can be configured to meet the real-time needs. This enables administrators to get an up-to-date asset / inventory information at any time, without any manual intervention. Alert Notifications Desktop Central sends email notifications to the administrators for the following events:.
A new hardware is detected in the network. A new software is detected in the network. Non-compliance (under-licensed) of software licensing policy, i.e., the license is inadequate and have to purchase more licenses to be compliant. A prohibited software is detected in the network.
Network Inventory Reports Desktop Central provides out-of-the-box reports to view the software and hardware details of the network. These reports help in getting a quick view of the network inventory. Ant toolbar opera. The ability to export the reports to PDF or CSV formats help integrate with third-party reporting engines or print it out for future reference.
Desktop Central's lets you collect and view the software and hardware inventory details for 25 desktops for free. For more details on the inventory management feature, refer to the online help documentation of.
In order to collect data for hardware and software reports in Asset Intelligence, you must enable the Hardware inventory Agent in the Client Settings Policy (Administration – Client Settings – Default Client Settings / Or whatever Policy you want to use). Further you will have to enable the required Classes for the Inventory.
Software inventory is always installed on the SMS site server. You can enable or disable the software inventory client agent any time by using the SMS Administrator console. The software inventory client agent is always installed on Advanced Clients. It is installed on Legacy Clients only when the client agent is enabled. In the SMS hierarchy, inventory data is forwarded from child sites to parent sites to allow for centralized administration.
If child sites have software inventory enabled, their software inventory data is propagated to the parent site even if the parent site has software inventory disabled. To enable or disable software inventory, navigate to Software Inventory Client Agent in the SMS Administrator console.
Systems Management ServerSite Database ( site code - site name) Site Hierarchy Site SettingsClient Agents In the details pane, right-click Software Inventory Client Agent, and then click Properties. To enable software inventory, select Enable software inventory on clients.
To disable software inventory, clear Enable software inventory on clients. When the software inventory agent is installed and enabled on Legacy Clients, software inventory is collected after 20 minutes and then according to the software inventory schedule. When the software inventory agent is enabled on Advanced Clients, it runs only according to the software inventory schedule. For More Information Did you find this information useful? Please send your suggestions and comments about the documentation to.
I have already installed client with system management and all the agent status is “enabled”, except SMS Software Update Agent which is the status is “installed”. Previously I though this is the cause I can’t push the update to client update, but I found out the it is because the update I have tested is already included as a SP2 in the client. But recently I have succeeded to push the update to client with sms software update agent status still installed The question is how can I enable the SMS software update agent? And how it is related to the update process? I have sms 2003 with sp3 and with ITMU installed Thank you Kholil.
It looks like you are looking at an SMS 2003 site, and your client is an SMS 2003 client. A Configuration Manager site has 10 different client agents, whereas SMS 2003 only had 5. A Configuration Manager client does not have a Systems Management Properties program, it is now Configuration Manager. If you look on the General tab, it will tell you the SMS Client Version.
I expect that to be something like 2.50.4160.2000, correct? You also will NOT have an software update point, as that is a Configuration Manager site system. You look to be mixing up the two versions. I just found an old VPC image that I had with SMS 2003 SP2, ITMU, and ITCU installed. My clients also show installed instead of enabled for that agent. So it looks like that is normal. As a normal course of action, like I mentioned earlier, Installed means that the agent is installed on the client.
Enabled means that it retrieved a policy to state that the agent was activated in that site. Since this agent is not a normal client agent, it makes sense that its status would be Installed, as there is no policy to 'enable' It.
Hope that helps, Wally. It looks like you are looking at an SMS 2003 site, and your client is an SMS 2003 client. A Configuration Manager site has 10 different client agents, whereas SMS 2003 only had 5. A Configuration Manager client does not have a Systems Management Properties program, it is now Configuration Manager. If you look on the General tab, it will tell you the SMS Client Version. I expect that to be something like 2.50.4160.2000, correct? You also will NOT have an software update point, as that is a Configuration Manager site system.
You look to be mixing up the two versions. As per my first email, yes, I'm using SMS 2003 with SP 3 and SMS client on XP with SP2, with ITMU V3 installed. The client version is 2.50.4253.300. As per previous email I have 6 agent on the client system management while on the SMS 2003 Console I have 5. The only agent that was not enabled is 'sms software update agent' Previously I have problem to push software update to the client, I though this is because the status of 'sms software update agent' are not enabled. But later I found out because the update I tried to push ie already included in SP2 of XP.
I tried a newer update and it succeded, with the sms software update agent status is 'installed' Is it how it shoud be? SMS software update agent status is 'installed' for SMS 2003? If i put all the pieces together than the its suppose like Omar van der Hoeven said, that after I install the ITMU then I push the x86 window update agent to the client there will be additional agent on client which is 'sms software update agent' which is can be change the status to 'enabled' since i used SMS 2003 not Configuration Manager. I don't recall, I don't have an SMS 2003 site installed. However, these forums are for Configuration Manager questions, not SMS 2003:-( I believe the SMS 2003 free suport is newsgroups, not forums.
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I have not heard that they are going to moving the SMS newsgroups to forums. I believe only Configuration Manager has forum support. It's been a long time, but I honestly don't recall an SMS Software Update Agent for SMS 2003 (could very well have been one, but I don't recall it).
Certainly not one you can enable as a normal Client Agent. Maybe it got installed when you installed ITMU on the site and clients. I just found an old VPC image that I had with SMS 2003 SP2, ITMU, and ITCU installed. My clients also show installed instead of enabled for that agent. So it looks like that is normal.
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As a normal course of action, like I mentioned earlier, Installed means that the agent is installed on the client. Enabled means that it retrieved a policy to state that the agent was activated in that site. Since this agent is not a normal client agent, it makes sense that its status would be Installed, as there is no policy to 'enable' It. Hope that helps, Wally.
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