Welcome to Client Automation Asset Management

CA Client Automation provides sophisticated IT asset management functionality specifically designed to manage heterogeneous environments. It enables the IT departments to reduce service costs by enforcing standards and policies on their hardware and software asset configurations.

This guide provides technical assistance for the administrator to perform the following tasks:

Configure the common configuration policies for asset management specific settings
Create software signatures, export software signatures, and import software signatures
Schedule jobs and collect tasks
Create queries
Define policies
Create and configure collection modules
Configure files for collection
Configure Asset Collector, Agent Bridge, and Asset Converter to collect inventory data from various sources
Integrate Intel AMT with Client Automation
Run inventory on a virtual host and collect inventory information (when a virtual host inventory collect task has been configured and enabled for that virtual host)