Software and hardware discovery
BigFix Inventory discovers hardware and software in your IT infrastructure.
With BigFix Inventory you can accomplish the following
goals by using software and hardware discovery:
- Manage software inventory
- Monitor license consumption
- Achieve basic license compliance
- Create an inventory of hardware in the enterprise
Infrastructure analysis
The first step, before you start discovering software and hardware, is to obtain the baseline of computers that exists in your environment. Estimate the total number of computers and organize them into computer groups in the BigFix console to avoid overloading the infrastructure.
Discovery of software and hardware
Collect information about your software, license compliance and hardware inventory. It is
commonly achieved by activating the capacity and software scans in the BigFix console. For more information, see: Setting up scans to discover software and hardware inventory.
Discovery | Description |
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Software inventory | Software inventory is analyzed by the scanner that searches for different types of
information to determine whether the software is installed or to measure its
usage. You should set up the appropriate software scans during the initial configuration of
BigFix Inventory. For more information, see: Types of software scans. Thanks to BigFix Inventory you can understand and manage your
software inventory, especially through the following practices:
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Hardware information and capacity data | Thanks to BigFix Inventory you can collect information about the
processors and the processor capacity that is assigned to each computer in your infrastructure.
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