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How Altiris Console Inventory reports work?  Submitted by jeremy.loe on 19 August, 2008 - 13:11.
Just wondering how Altiris goes about gathering system and application information(Specifically SQL information). Just wondering if its gathered through the registry, file structure, WMI, ect... I have several servers not showing up as SQL servers but still showing up in windows server inventory. If someone could help fill me in that would be great. Thanks, |
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Where does it get this information?
From the server xml file
<<name>>MSSQLServer<</name>>
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<<properties>>
InstanceName, Version, AuditLevel, MemoryAllocationType, MemoryAllocatedMB, SQLQueryMemoryKB, SQLIndexCreationMemoryKB, SQLIndexCreationMemoryType, Collation, DefaultLanguage, AgentServiceRunning, ServerRunning, FulltextSearchInstalled, MSDTCServiceRunning, EnabledProtocols, LinkedServerNames, Authentication, ServiceAccount, MaxConcurrentUsersAllowed, AutoANSIToOEM, UseIntlSettings, ReplicationWorkingDirectory, SQLPath, SQLExecutiveMailAutoStart, SQLServerUpdatedVersion
<</properties>>
check this article
it's describe how the inventory process works:
http://juice.altiris.com/article/1638/altiris-inve...
there is no specific answer to your question in it... but maybe it will give you some clue.
although i couldn't find any where a good answer to your question, i think that the agent getting the data from WMI, after all WMI is the biggest resource to that kind of data in windows...
What type of Inventory are you talking about?
Software Inventory is controlled by the auditpls.ini and based on what you have setup in that file is what is scanned.
Hardware Inventory is done through WMI, plus other sources
Custom Inventory can gather information through WMI, Registry and also any INI file.
So it is a combination of WMI, SMBIOS, BIOS, and other sources.
Jonathan Jesse
Director of Training
ITS Partners
Depends on the Inventory
It depends on the type of inventory, but I believe WMI is widely used in many types of inventory.