Using the HP Insight Inventory Collector with System Center Configuration Manager 2007

There are two options for installing and using Collect:

• Issuing Configuration Manager Advertisement from the site server to schedule inventory collections from specified clients
• Manually running Collect to collect the inventory of a particular client

Regardless of which method to execute Collect, the .MIF files generated by the Collect does not automatically populate the site server database. The Configuration Manager Hardware Inventory service must be configured and active on each managed system to retrieve the .MIF files and populate the SMS database. To ensure that .MIF files are collected, you must enable the Collect NOIDMIF files option in the Hardware Inventory Client Agent Properties. For details on configuring and using the hardware inventory of Configuration Manager, see the Configuration Manager User Guide or Configuration Manager Application Help.