Reporting

Lets you generate an Inventory report.

Available Reports
Displays a predefined list of reports that you can select.

When you select a report, a description is displayed on the right side of the dialog box.

Selection Criteria
Specify the selection criteria.

For example, if you want to view the inventory information of all inventoried servers, select Server as the scope selection criteria. The report will display the inventory information of all inventoried servers within the configured Inventory database.

Based on the type of report you want, you can filter the information. For example, to view all inventoried machines that have the Windows* 2000 operating system, you would select Operating System Listing, specify the selection criteria scope as Both, and the operating system type as Windows 2000.

The following table lists the selection criteria that are applicable to all the reports, except for the User Defined report. The selection criteria for User Defined reports are based on the options that the user specifies in the consoleone\consoleone_version\bin\userreports.ini file.

Selection Criteria Information Displayed in the Inventory Report
Scope

This option is available only if both Novell® ZENworks® for Desktops 4 and ZENworks for Servers 3 are installed on the same system.

If you select Workstations, the Inventory report displays all inventoried workstations satisfying the query expression. If you select Servers, the Inventory report displays all inventoried servers satisfying the query expression. Select Both to include all inventoried workstations and inventoried servers satisfying the query expression.

Machine Name Name of the inventoried machine.
IP Address IP address of the inventoried machine.
DNS Name DNS of the inventoried machine.

For more information on the selection criteria specific to each Inventory report, click the report in the following table.

Inventory Report Group Report Name
Hardware Inventory Asset Management Report
Battery Listing
BIOS Listing
Bus Listing
CDROM Listing
Display Adapter Listing
Floppy Listing
Hardware Summary Report
Keyboard Listing
Modem Listing
Network Adapter Listing
Physical Disk Listing
Pointing Device Listing
Power Supply Listing
Processor Listing
Sound Adapter Listing
Storage Devices Inventory Report
System Configuration Inventory Inventory Scan Listing
Memory Listing
Operating System Listing
System Information Listing
System Internal Hardware Report
Software Inventory Application Software Inventory Report
Software Listing
Software Summary Chart
Software Summary Listing
System Software Inventory Report

You can use the wildcard asterisk (*) or question mark (?) with all selection criteria. The wildcard characters can be used for character data only.

The following table provides examples of wildcard characters usage.

Example Specifies to Include
* All items
164.99.* All items starting with "164.99."
164.9?.215.23 All items starting with "164.9" , followed by any character, and ending with".215.23"
164.96.215.23 The single named item, in this case the machine with the specified IP address

Run Selected Report
Generates the selected report and displays the report in a viewer.

Use the toolbar buttons of the viewer to page through, print, or export the report.


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