Use this worksheet to help you plan for client agent settings
and requirements, and to determine whether you require different
settings for different groups of clients within the same site.
Complete this worksheet for each site, and for each set of clients
requiring unique settings within each site.
Use the following guidelines to assist in planning
tasks.
| Client Agent
|
Example Data Needed, Where Applicable, and by
Location
|
Collected Data
|
|
Hardware inventory client agent
|
- Enabled?
- Scheduled frequency
- MIF collection options
|
|
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Software inventory client agent
|
- Enabled?
- Scheduled frequency
- Inventory collection settings
- File collection options
- Inventory names options
|
|
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Advertised programs client agent
|
- Enabled?
- General settings
- Notification settings
|
|
|
Computer client agent
|
- Network Access Account settings
- Policy polling interval
- Organization customization properties
- Reminders properties
- BITS properties
|
|
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Desired configuration management client agent
|
- Enabled?
- Scheduled frequency
|
|
|
Device agent
|
- Polling interval
- Software distribution to devices enabled?
- Software inventory of devices enabled?
Schedule frequency?
- Hardware inventory of devices enabled?
Schedule frequency?
- File collection of devices enabled? Schedule
frequency and file collection properties?
|
|
|
Remote tools client agent
|
- Enabled?
- General options, including policy change
options
- Security options (permitted viewers)
- Notification options
- Remote assistance options (including level of
access)
|
|
|
Network Access Protection (NAP) client agent
|
- Enabled?
- Evaluation options
|
|
|
Software metering client agent
|
- Enabled?
- Schedule options for data collection and
metering rule download
|
|
|
Software updates client agent
|
- Enabled?
- Scheduled frequency
- Update installation options
- Deployment reevaluation schedule options
|
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