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Inventory Detection Modules

Asset management provides a set of predefined detection modules that collect basic and advanced inventory information such as, general, performance, printer, WBEM, user account, and user environment inventories. Each inventory detection module retrieves different types of inventory information.

The Inventory Detection Modules folder under Control Panel contains various inventory modules that you can configure and execute on the assets. This is in addition to the basic inventory available under All Computers, current computer. You can also define your own inventory detection modules in this folder. Double-click a module to view or change its properties and configuration.

Note: The inventory information for all these modules, except General Inventory module, is collected under Domain, Computers and Users, All Computers, Computer, Inventory, Additional.

You can configure the following hardware inventory detection modules to collect the inventory for all or any of the agents in the domain.

The following module is automatically configured on all the agents regardless of whether asset management is installed:

• Basic HW Inventory–Basic inventory collected by the common agent.

The following modules are available only if you have the asset management agent installed. These modules can be configured only on Windows agents:

• Printer Inventory (WMI)
• Serial Number and Model (WMI).
• Service Inventory
• WBEM Inventory (IWBEM)
• Protection Inventory
• Microsoft License Information Inventory
• FDCC Inventory

  Note: This module is available only if you have selected Desktop Compliance Scanner (DCS) at the time of installation.

The following modules can be configured on all the agents:

• General Inventory (ICHW). By default, this is configured on Windows and Linux/UNIX domains.
• User Account Inventory(UUI)
• Performance Inventory. By default, this is configured on Windows and Linux/UNIX domains.

The following modules can be configured only on UNIX/Linux agents:

• User Environment for UNIX

  Note: Depending on the operating system installed on the agent computer, the asset management agent launches the executable file associated with each module to collect the inventory information. If a platform-related executable file is not specified, nothing is executed.