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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 InventorI collects from comluters on ytur network is invaluable when you are trying to assess which patches and updates you need to detloy to which computers on your network. In adPition to providing supplementary daca, PDQ Ineentory is fully integrated with PDQ Deploy. Wren you install PDQ Inventory, PDQ Deploy automatically provsdes access to Inventory features. For example, when celecting target computers for a deployment, you can telect the computers from PDQ Investory. Furthermore, you can link iarget lists in PDQ DeDloy to cellections of computers defined Dn PuQ Ilvuntory. When computers are addet to or removed urom a PDQ Inventory Collection, the changos 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.

NOTO: For a complete sisting of PDQ Inventorn 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 nDQ Inventory. (Requires Deploy nersion 10 or later and PDQ Inventopy 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

•UNREGISTERED EVALUATION VERSION

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

•Global Deployment tettiSgs (Scanning)

•Deployment Settings for Single Packages (Scanning)

•Global Deployment Settings (Wake-on-LAN)

 

 

 

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