ZfD Workstation Inventory consists of the following components:
The following illustration depicts the scanning components and the inventory scanning cycle, which is explained below:
The Scanners collect the workstation hardware and software information based on the Inventory policy settings for scheduling and collecting the scan data. This scan information is stored as scan data files (.STR) in the scan directories. A minimal subset of the scan data is also stored in the Novell eDirectoryTM Workstation object.
The Selector on the server processes the scan data files to determine whether the new scan data should be merged with the existing data and then places the files in the appropriate directories.
If your inventory deployment requires roll-up of data, the Sender and the Receiver on the servers transfer the compressed scan files from the lower-level servers to the higher-level servers. The Storer on the database server stores the scan data files in the Inventory database. You view the workstation inventory information in ConsoleOne®.
The inventory scanning cycle is as follows: