How to Extend Hardware Inventory

Extending hardware inventory consists of executing these tasks:

• Creating a new version of Configuration.mof for your tests and checking and testing the modifications using the Mofcomp.exe and WBEMTest.exe tools.

• Replacing the current Configuration.mof, found in <ConfigMgrInstallPath> under the inboxes\clifiles.src\hinv folder, with this new Configuration.mof.

• Checking whether your Configuration.mof changes were accepted by inspecting the dataldr.log file residing on the site server, and whether the changes were executed on your clients by checking the inventoryagent.log file on the client.

• Selecting the classes with their attributes to be inventoried by modifying the hardware inventory settings, using ...

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