Configuring PC Hardware and Software Inventory
| Procedure Summary: | PC Inventory is regulated by the Novo Solutions license. If the software is setup correctly but doesn't work as expected, contact Novo Solutions to ensure the appropriate license has been given to you. |
| Once the Novo Application has been installed, perform the following steps to setup PC Inventory: - Setup a Network Share for the pc_inventory folder:
- In Windows Explorer, go to the main Novo Solutions application folder (typically c:\Program Files\Novo4.3\) and then go to the pc_inventory\current folder
Note: This is NOT the app\pc_inventory\current folder - Right mouse click on {Path}\novo\pc_inventory\current and click Properties. (Where {Path} is where the software is installed; C:\Program Files is the default.)
- Click the Sharing tab.
- Provide a share name of "pc_inventory$"
Note: The $ at the end makes it a hidden share so that users cannot browse the network and find this folder (and accidently delete inventory files). - Ensure the User Limit is Maximum Allowed.
- Click Permissions to ensure that Everyone has Read & Write permissions
- Click OK.
- Setup the Auto inventory:
- Add the command "\\servername\pc_inventory$\getsysinfo.exe /xml" to your network login script (to test it out, you can just double click on the pcinvent.bat file which will create an xml file in the pc_inventory\current folder). This command takes about 6 seconds to run and should not be very noticable to your end users. They will hear the disk drives accessed during the inventory.
- When they login next, an inventory file (in xml format) will be created in the pc_inventory\current folder which the Novo Web application can then use. The format of the file is MACHINENAME_SystemInfo.xml.
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