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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.

The specifications for collecting the inventory information can be any of the following:

• An executable file that has the code for collecting the values. This file can be different based on the operating system of the agent. Asset management takes care of invoking the appropriate file based on the operating system of the asset.
• A configuration tool that you can launch and select the items you want to inventory.
• Manually enter the configuration information.

The following illustration provides the sample configuration information for the inventory detection module:

Note: For more details about creating new inventory detection modules, see the DSM Explorer Help.

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