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Well that's it for the inventory collection process. As you can see, SMS 2.0 can report on a lot of "stuff"—both hardware-related and software-related. Using MOF Manager and customized NOIDMIF and IDMIF files, you can append data to the existing client architecture and add new architectures, object classes, and attributes to the database. You can view inventory through Resource Explorer, and you can further refine what you see through the use of queries.

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Because the inventory process is fairly straightforward, this chapter did not include a "Checkpoints" section. Any problems you might encounter can be easily spotted and corrected by monitoring the log files and status messages. You're more likely to encounter issues as you work with MOF Manager and create custom MIF files, and in that regard, there are no better resources than the Systems Management Server 2.0 Administrator's Guide and the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Resource Guide.

In Chapter 10, we'll continue our exploration of client management tools as we look at Remote Tools.