Hardware and Software Inventory
All of the data collected from managed systems is located in the Configuration Manager database, and can be reported on through the built-in reporting features. This data can also be accessed with external applications and programmatically through a variety of methods, including WMI and with the predefined database views.
Inventory collection is the process of scanning for hardware configuration and file data on the managed system and reporting the results back to Configuration Manager. Both the Hardware and Software Inventory Client Agents use WMI to perform the actual scan of the managed system. The Configuration Manager client is told what to include in the inventory with rules sent to the client as policies. ...
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