Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Support for uploading software title information to the System Center Online service,
which then categorizes it
You can review contents of the Asset Intelligence catalog and customize certain elements
by clicking the Asset Intelligence folder in the Assets And Compliance workspace of the
Configuration Manager console. The Asset Intelligence folder includes the following nodes:
Catalog
Includes most of the catalog segments that administrators can update:
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Software Categories
Asset Intelligence software categories broadly classify
inventoried software titles. By default, there are a number of predefined software
categories, including line-of-business (LOB), 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 cre-
ate 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 that have the
custom label Shareware associated with them.
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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 fol-
lowing information by default for each inventoried software title:
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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 invento-
ried the software title
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State
The validation state for the software title
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Hardware Requirements
You can use Asset Intelligence hardware requirements to
help verify that computers meet hardware requirements for software titles before you
target the computers for deployment. Asset Intelligence retrieves from its catalog the
hardware requirements that display in the Configuration Manager console. The list is
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