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SCE Tasks & Inventory: Systems Composition Enumeration
Greg Shields: Last time we looked at how proactive management using Microsoft's Systems Center Essentials can improve the lives of administrators in the smallest of networks. This time, let's look at the how to handle the inventory process with SCE. With its regular inventory along with its reporting capabilities, you'll immediately get an understanding of the composition of servers and workstations on your network.Once you've installed SCE into your network, one of the first things you'll want to do is run its discovery and agent installation process. That process will locate servers and workstations on your network and install the SCE client. Also possible under Advanced Discovery is the enumeration of network devices that have known "read" SNMP strings configured. The benefit here is the ability for SCE to notify you when network devices go down.(continue at source)