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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)

RBAC

PDQ Deploy uses the roles and role assignments from PDQ Inventory to determine if a feature should be locked or enabled. Roles cannot be defined or assigned within PDQ Deploy.

RBAC data may be temporarily cached in PDQ Deploy. If the connection to PDQ Inventory is lost, there is a grace period for integration to be reestablished before users may be locked out of certain PDQ Deploy features.

If you prefer to run PDQ Deploy without PDQ Inventory integration, it is possible to disable RBAC in PDQ Deploy separately from PDQ Inventory.

If RBAC is enabled in PDQ Deploy, it will rely on PDQ Inventory to determine the current user's role. If RBAC is disabled in PDQ Deploy, all PDQ Deploy users will be granted complete Super User permissions within the PDQ Deploy application, regardless of their status in PDQ Inventory. If RBAC is disabled in PDQ Inventory, any request for a role, regardless of its origin, will be granted complete Super User permissions.

See also

RBAC Window

 

 

 

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