Managing inventory

An inventory management system is concerned with the collection of static data from all managed devices in its network. Inventory management provides an easy-to-use functionality for data configuration of each managed device and makes this information available to an inventory system as required. The inventory software is then responsible for the cataloging and sorting of the information received from the different sources. The collected information is related to the individual properties of the object and contains extensive information, such as the installed processor and its type, speed, RAM, BIOS name and date, the software installed on the managed devices and any other custom defined attributes, such as the geographical location, for example, continent, country, town, building and room or company organizational units, such as department, workgroup, and so on. Not all of the preceding, however, are available for all platforms.