Manually creating and modifying inventory policies and tasks ............. 43
Selecting computers and scheduling inventory tasks .......................... 44
Inventory policy options ................................................................ 45
Inventory advanced options ........................................................... 46
Inventory advanced options: Data Classes tab .................................... 47
Inventory advanced options: Files Properties Scan Settings tab ............ 47
Inventory advanced options: Run options tab .................................... 51
About detailed file inventory .......................................................... 53
About targeted software inventory .................................................. 54
Gathering detailed file inventory .................................................... 55
Running a targeted software inventory ............................................ 56
Chapter 5 Gathering inventory using stand-alone
packages ......................................................................... 59
About gathering inventory using stand-alone packages ....................... 59
Gathering inventory using stand-alone packages ............................... 60
Creating and editing stand-alone inventory packages ......................... 60
Stand-alone inventory package options page .................................... 61
Running stand-alone inventory packages on target computers ............. 64
Stand-alone inventory package command-line switches ...................... 66
Manually reporting stand-alone inventory data ................................. 67
Chapter 6 Gathering custom inventory ............................................. 69
About gathering custom inventory .................................................. 69
Gathering custom inventory .......................................................... 71
Creating and customizing the data class ........................................... 72
Creating a custom inventory script task ........................................... 74
About creation interfaces .............................................................. 76
Viewing custom inventory data ...................................................... 79
Chapter 7 Viewing inventory data and reports ................................ 81
Viewing inventory data ................................................................. 81
Using inventory reports ................................................................ 81
About using the Resource Manager to view inventory data .................. 82
Using the Resource Manager to view inventory data ........................... 84
Chapter 8 Metering and denying applications ................................. 85
About metering and denying applications ......................................... 85
About how application metering works ............................................ 88
About blacklisting applications ....................................................... 88
About configuring applications for metering ..................................... 89
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