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PDQ Inventory is a companion product to PDQ Deploy. It scans your network computers and collects hardware, software, and Windows configurations. You can view the collected data directly in PDQ Inventory or you can generate inventory reports. PDQ Inventory also provides valuable features such as booting machines from Wake-On LAN, executing commands and remote desktop on target machines, and uninstalling software.

Requirements

In order to use PDQ Inventory with PDQ Deploy, both products must be installed on the same console machine. The ability to use PDQ Inventory with PDQ Deploy depends on your license level and the mode in which the console is running.

NOTE: For any combination below, the target computer must already be in PDQ Inventory with a name or hostname that matches the name used in PDQ Deploy.

The following chart displays the requirements:

Features

The information PDQ Inventory collects from computers on your network is invaluable when you are trying to assess which patches and updates you need to deploy to which computers on your network. In addition to providing supplementary data, PDQ Inventory is fully integrated with PDQ Deploy. When you install PDQ Inventory, PDQ Deploy automatically provides access to Inventory features. For example, when selecting target computers for a deployment, you can select the computers from PDQ Inventory. Furthermore, you can link target lists in PDQ Deploy to collections of computers defined in PDQ Inventory. When computers are added to or removed from a PDQ Inventory Collection, the changes are reflected in the linked target list.

In addition to selecting target computers from PDQ Inventory, you can automatically launch PDQ Inventory scans after deployment and you can use PDQ Inventory to send a Wake-on-LAN command to an offline computer during deployment.

NOTE: For a complete listing of PDQ Inventory features, see https://www.pdq.com/pdq-inventory/.

PDQ Inventory can be opened directly from PDQ Deploy in the Deployment Status window, All Deployments page, Deployments tab of the Package page, and the Target History tab of the Schedule window by selecting one or more computer names, right-click and select Open in PDQ Inventory. (Requires Deploy version 10 or later and PDQ Inventory version 9 or later.)

The following links provide step-by-step instructions on how to leverage PDQ Inventory features within PDQ Deploy:

•Creating Scheduled Deployments, Part 3: Schedule Targets

•Deploying Packages with Deploy Once, Step 5

•Creating a Target List, Part 2: Link to Target Sources

•Creating a Target List, Part 3: Choosing Individual Targets

•Global Deployment Settings (Scanning)

•Deployment Settings for Single Packages (Scanning)

•Global Deployment Settings (Wake-on-LAN)

 

 

 

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