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OCR: Asset Insight's Inventory Process 1. Client discover Discovery Modules periodically inventory the client's hardware and software attributes, Informationis stored in's single the end. passed to the configured Asset Insight Server. 2. Inventory transfer, Asset Insight Server: collect inventory files and. Periodically forwerd them to the Data Manager. 3. Database uppate, The Data Managers receives new inventory difes cornperes them to current essot information in the database, and puto hatically loods only the changed asset data. 4. Cats viewing and analysis Asset Insight Data Viewers allow executives es administrators To access the database to generate analyses and ad hoc reports of historical asset information, The data can also be accessed via Set or exported for use by other systems" 5. Automated Asset Insight apeates, Now asset uwentery requests are Input centrally, These updates are then automatically propagated from the Data Manager to the servers and then to Hit chients, Administrators can apply an Asset Insight update to a predetermined subset of servers and clients in s pilot environment before phasing It into the entire proy auction environment .. 6. installation of updates. The updates are installed on the chents and starvers and used during the next inventery. Figure J. Tangram's Asset Insight, which consists of four components, can automatically identify and report on hundreds of hardware and software components and over 3,500 software applications. PeopleSoft chose to limit its inventory to a couple dozen applications and a few key hardware components.