Using the information in the inventory....

[Delon Weuve]

The Inventory system detected a bunch on computers on my network with an old
BIOS version.

I would like to set you the Novell Application Explorer to make available to
the computers connected that have that older version but I would like to set
it up using the distribution criteria and then make it generally available
rather than specifically selecting the workstations.

Does this make sense?

And can I do what I want to do?

If so, how??

Thanks in advance.

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Delon E. Weuve
Senior Network Engineer
Office of Auditor of State
State of Iowa

[Craig Wilson]

Inventory does not really do this as far as I know.

This would take some custom scripting on your part.

You would need a couple ZENworks apps.

The 1st app would use WSH or similar tool to read the bios and related
information from the PC and then place this information into a REG Key or
Permanent Environment variable.
Lots of info about the PC could be stored in this fashion.

Then have a 2nd app that pushes updates based upon those values.

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