Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
CATALOG
The catalog includes most of the catalog segments that administrators can update and the
following:
Software Categories
Asset Intelligence software categories broadly categorize
inventoried software titles. By default, there are a number of predefined software cat-
egories, such as Line Of Business, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), and Office
Suites And Productivity. You can create additional user-defined categories to classify
inventoried software further.
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Software Families
Asset Intelligence software families further define inventoried
software titles. By default, the Asset Intelligence catalog includes approximately 20
predefined software families. Some examples of these predefined software families are
Components And Peripherals, Equipment, Home And Entertainment, Industry Specific,
Line Of Business, and Productivity And Viewers. You can create additional user-defined
software families to classify inventoried software further.
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Custom Labels
Custom labels enable further classification of inventoried software
according to attributes that administrators define. For example, you might create a
custom label known as Shareware and associate that label with inventoried shareware
titles. You then can run a report to display all software titles with which the custom
label Shareware is associated.
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INVENTORIED SOFTWARE
The list of inventoried software titles includes information about software that the Hardware
Inventory Agent reports. This node displays the following information by default for each
inventoried software title:
Product Name
The name of the inventoried software
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Publisher
The name of the vendor that developed the software
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Version
The product version of the software title
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Category
The currently assigned software category
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Family
The currently assigned software family
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Label (1, 2, and 3)
The custom labels that have been assigned with the software
title, to a maximum of three
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Software Count
The number of Configuration Manager clients that have inventoried
the software title
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HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
You can use Asset Intelligence hardware requirements to provide data to help verify that
computers meet hardware requirements for software titles before you target them for
deployment. Asset Intelligence retrieves from its catalog the hardware requirements that
appear in the Configuration Manager console. The list is not based on inventoried software
title information from Configuration Manager clients. You can add, modify, or delete
