Advanced Options under "Collect Delta Hardware Inventory"

Products

• IT Management Suite
• Inventory Solution

Issue/Introduction

When looking at the Collect Inventory policies it was noticed that under the "Advanced" options, the default for "Collect Delta Hardware Inventory" shows some dataclasses under the "Software" category (and other categories) that seem not Hardware related:

Environment

ITMS 8.x

Resolution

For example, "Collect Software Inventory" is about installed applications and files only:

"Collect Hardware Inventory" is about hardware (models, serial numbers, devices, etc) and hardware-related software and options (firmware, Drivers, Operating System and its settings, Users):

All policies are configurable and customers may uncheck data that is not required according to their needs.

 

Such behavior has not changed for many years, We have 4 "types" of inventory: