The asset management Non Resident Inventory support function (NRI) complements the inventorying functionality by letting enterprise administrators inventory their networks without making any permanent impact on the devices inventoried. NRI provides an Elective solution where end users are directed to use a Web page to collect the inventory for their system, and also a Managed solution where the enterprise administrator initiates an inventory collection through, for example, logon scripts.
NRI support uses components from the regular DSM agent in conjunction with the Asset Collector and the Web Console.
To use NRI, at least one Web Console (and the associated Web Services) and one Asset Collector must be installed for each domain manager where non resident inventory is to be collected and stored. In the simplest scenario each domain manager may co-host a single Web Console and Asset Collector. For larger and more scalable scenarios, a number of scalability servers may co-host Web Consoles and Asset Collectors.
NRI is installed as part of the asset management functionality through the setup program of CA Client Automation. Configuration of NRI is achieved through a simple configuration file (script file).
NRI supports inventorying on Windows, Linux and UNIX target computers. Also, the management components of NRI are supported on managers and scalability servers on Windows only.
If you run NRI using a standard domain user account that has fewer privileges compared to the user "root" (in the case of UNIX and Linux) or administrator account (in the case of Windows), there will be less inventory reported by the NRI agent compared to the regular Client Automation agent.
Based upon the privileges under which NRI is being executed, the NRI agent collects as much information as it can.
Note: For more information about NRI, see the Asset Management Administration Guide.
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