ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management Inventory Scanner scans hardware and software information for all workstations that are registered to eDirectory but are temporarily disconnected from your network.
This helps the administrator to gather the inventory for the users who connect to the network less frequently but want their machines to be inventoried.
If the Inventory Scanner is scheduled to collect the inventory for an inventoried workstation that is registered to eDirectory but not connected to the network, the Inventory Scanner will wait until the workstation is reconnected to the network.
The Scheduler caches the Workstation Inventory policy from eDirectory and the cache information will be available till the machine is up and running. The Scheduler launches the Scanner. The Scanner checks whether the inventoried workstation is connected to the network.
If the inventoried workstation is connected, the Inventory Scanner will collect the inventory of the workstation and will update the information to the Inventory database. If the inventoried workstation is not connected, the Scanner reports an error to the Scheduler and the Scheduler launches the Inventory Scanner after every 15 minutes until it is successful.
For more information on how to deploy this in your enterprise, see Scenario 3: Deploying Inventory Agent to Workstations that Are Periodically Connected to the Network.