Chapter 8. Managing Inventory
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Managing hardware inventory
- Managing software inventory
- Managing software metering
- Monitoring inventory data flow
- Integrating Asset Intelligence
Introduction
Inventory is central to most of what CM can do. It's needed for asset reports, targeting deployments, compliance, and more. How inventory is managed can affect workstation performance, network traffic, the overall size of the database, and more. Because of this, we're dedicating an entire chapter to the subject.
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