The manager service collects inventory information about the managed hosts and retains it as database information (Microsoft Access Driver). This function enables the system administrator to perform the following management operations:

• Search the database for the hosts whose inventory information satisfies specified conditions (host search function)
• Search the database regularly on a scheduled basis for hosts whose inventory information satisfies specified conditions and send the search results as email (auto-report function)

For hosts managed by the manager service, these functions enable you to manage changes to or consistency in the asset information either on an as-needed basis or regularly on a scheduled basis. For example, you can search the hosts by group for management purposes, or you can search the hosts periodically to determine whether their OS versions are up-to-date and then send email notifications.

The following figure shows the system configuration for database management.

Figure 5-1 System configuration for database management

Organization of this section

5.2.1 Prerequisites

5.2.2 Environment settings (database management)

5.2.3 Operation

5.2.4 Synchronizing a database