Configuration manager software inventory client agent

IDMIF files must include a top-level group with the same class as the architecture being added or changed, and that group must include at least one property. Any class that has more than one instance must have at least one key property defined, or subsequent instances overwrite previous instances. Removing IDMIF files from clients does not cause the associated data in the site database to be deleted during subsequent hardware inventories.

IDMIF file information is not added to client inventory reports and sent as MIF files across the network to be processed at the site server. Skip to content. Star Permalink main. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Raw Blame. Open with Desktop View raw View blame. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

Privacy policy. This procedure configures the default client settings for software inventory and applies to all the computers in your hierarchy. If you want to apply these settings to only some computers, create a custom device client setting and assign it to a collection. For more information about how to create custom device settings, see How to configure client settings.

On the Home tab, in the Properties group, choose Properties. Enable software inventory on clients - From the drop-down list, select True. Schedule software inventory and file collection schedule - Configures the interval at which clients collect software inventory and files. Configure the client settings that you require. The Software inventory section of the About client settings article has a list of the client settings.

EXE Executables. When this action runs, it inventory the information in the file header of the inventoried files and send to site. This information will be logged into inventoryagent. Software Metering Usage Report Cycle: The name itself says,metering which means, Configmgr client monitor and collect software usage data for the software metering rules that are enabled on the Site. Client computers evaluate these rules during the machine policy interval and collect metering data and send it to site.

After you collect the usage data for specific application, you can use this information in different ways by creating collection. Software updates deployment evaluation Cycle: This action will initiate scan for software updates compliance. Evaluates the state of new and existing deployments and their associated software updates. This includes scanning for software updates compliance, but may not always catch scan results for the latest updates.

This is a forced online scan and requires that the WSUS server is available for this action to succeed. This action results will be logged into couple of log files on the client: scanagent. Software Update Scan Cycle: This action Scans for software updates compliance for updates that are new since the last scan. This action does not evaluate deployment policies as the Software Updates Deployment Evaluation Cycle does. This action results will be logged into WUAHandler. This action causes the Product Source Update Manager to complete a full update cycle.

When you install an application using Windows Installer, those Windows Installer applications try to return to the path they were installed from when they need to install new components, repair the application, or update the application. This location is called the Windows Installer source location. Windows Installer Source Location Manager can automatically search Configmgr distribution points for the source files, even if the application was not originally installed from a distribution point.

I hope this blog post will be helpful to others who are looking for these action to know what they do. Eswar, great blog. Thanks for posting this. It was very useful for the last two actions that I could not seem to trace down where they were recording their activities to so the powershell module I am writing will be able to run an action and then report when the action completes.