Remotely installing the Inventory Only Module

Question

Version 11.3
I want to install the inventory only module to multiple windows devices. The only documentation I can find states you have to download the agent and install at the windows device. https://www.novell.com/documentation...deployment.pdf. Is there a way to install this module using the ZENworks console? I can't seem to find it. Deployment task is only set to to install the ZENworks Adaptive Agent.
Thanks,
Bill

Answer 1

I also like to point out that the Discovery tool is not designed to be
the only way or even necessarily the main way of pushing agents.
Login Scripts, AD Scripts, or any other management tool can push the
agents (If you don't have any management tools, you should be
considering the full product.)
Even a Scripted PSEXEC would work for you, but only in theory.
The issue is that by default, Non-Domain Joined PCs will not permit
remote software installation unless you perform quite a bit of manual
configuration. So if your PCs are not in a domain and you have no
management tools, you will need to visit the PC to manually configure it
to allow a remote push at a future time that you hope the PC may be
powered on and not in use. So if you are going to do all that work, it
would only make sense to install the agent while you are there at that time.
In my mind, the Discovery and Deployment tool is best for discovering
straggler devices missing the agent and less at deploying since there
are so many limitations due to the very nature of basic default Windows
security.
The best bet in my mind is to try and figure out a way to use your
current management methods, even if they are as simple as logon scripts,
to push/pull down the agent instead of trying to remotely access the PC
in the hopes it is on, since that method has a whole series of hurdles
that are tough to overcome.
On 10/8/2014 8:30 AM, Shaun Pond wrote:
> [email protected],
>
> then it becomes a much bigger beast to deal with - the full agent has
> the capability of being pushed, but the inventory only agent wasn't
> designed to do that.
>
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