Standalone inventory possible on individual workstations?
We've been using Zenworks Inveontory for some time, and for remote
inventory
it does a good job. However, I'm now running into a situation where
we
need to be able to do "standalone" inventories, i.e. run an inventory
on a
machine that, for one reason or another, cannot be registered or
imported
into our Zenworks database, or maybe not even remotely accessed.
I know there are many 3rd party software utilities that will do this -
you
run a small executible on the workstation from a floppy or removeable
media,
and it reports the info back to a destination of your choosing. What
I'm
wondering is if Zenworks has a component that could be used for this
type of
functionality.
I did find this in a cool solutions page, but I don't necessarily need
to
import the info into Zenworks - I just need to run an inventory on a
"non-connected" machine.
"Inventory of Non-Connected Machines
Question: Peter H. wrote: We're about to implement ZENworks 3.0 in mycompany, and are looking forward to it.
We have approximately 300 machines which will be imported into our
ZENworks
database. We also have 50 machines which are placed at our employees'
homes,
and these machines are not connected to the network.
We have the idea that ZENworks is going to be our system to maintain a
list
of what equipment our users have, both in the office and at home.
Is it possible to make an inventory of a machine and then import it
into
ZENworks?
Answer: This is in ZfD4, which will be releasing very soon. "
Any ideas of using Zen 3.2 to run a "non-connected" inventory?
Nicoya Helm, Network Specialist
University of KS Medical Center
[email protected]
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