Populating the Inventory database

The properties for all WMI classes defined in the collected data sets are gathered when you run an Inventory task on the client computers. When you add a new collected data set, you need to run an Inventory task to collect the appropriate WMI class properties and add them to the Inventory database.

To populate the Inventory database

1.

Set up an inventory refresh task, by selecting the Refresh Inventory step in the task definition.

Setting up tasks

2.

Run the inventory refresh task on the appropriate computer group.

You may want to set up a computer group that contains all the Console client computers, to ensure that the Inventory database is complete and up-to-date.

Executing a task from the Symantec Ghost Console

Note: If a WMI class has instances with different properties on different computers, the class properties are merged in the Inventory database.

If no instances of a WMI class are found on any client computers, the class properties cannot be added to the database. If this occurs, you may want to check that you have specified the WMI namespace and class name correctly in the collected data set.

When you have updated the Inventory database, you need to proceed to the next step of the process, setting up the class properties for each collected data set.

Setting up collected data set properties