From the Console, you can query the inventory database to display the hardware and software components of managed workstations that you want to view. The Inventory Query displays the information with the criteria you specify.

The inventory database stores inventory data (hardware, memory, and environmental information) for each managed workstation.

Querying the inventory database helps to create groups of similar devices and focus your reports on specific types of machines. For example, you can query the database to find machines that have an i486D processor and a VGA card.

You can also combine multiple query groups, in which each group defines a set of query criteria. For example, you could run a query to discover all devices registered in the database that have 486 processors and another query to discover which of these machines have a VGA color video adapter.

You can save the results of the query.

The components and attributes that you form for querying the managed workstations are as follows:

• Software

  Drivers, Shell Driver, Packages (Description, Identifying Number, Name, Version), Operating System (InstallDate, Name, Version, Total Swap Space, Total Virtual Memory, Free Virtual Memory, Free Physical Memory, Available Swap Size), Scanner Information (Version, LastScanDate, NumberofFilesScanned)

• Hardware

  Mouse, Keyboard, Display, Display Adapter, BIOS, Processor, Memory (Extended, Expanded, Physical), Disk, Floppy Drives, Hard Disk, CD ROM Drive, Mapped Drives, Ports (Serial Ports, Parallel Port), BUS, Modem, NIC Card

• Network

  IP address, IPX^TM address, Mac address

• Miscellaneous

  Configuration File, Environment, Windows NT Service

• ComponentID (DMI)

  InstallDate, Identifying number, Name, Vendor, Version, Verify