Inventory Beacon Reference

The following topics provide:

• Recommended best practices for the inventory beacon (Recommended Best Practices for the Inventory Beacon)

• A reference to the inventory beacon's requirements for upstream connection to the application server (Connection to Application server)

• Ways to adjust the inventory beacon after installation (Adjusting the Web Server on the Inventory Beacon)

• The tasks (Scheduled Tasks for Inventory Beacon), paths (File Paths for Inventory Beacon), and registry entries (Registry Keys for Inventory Beacon) needed to facilitate communications between an inventory beacon and its parent application server

• Some troubleshooting advice (Troubleshooting: Inventory Missing for a Target Device).

Also see the section What Is an Inventory Beacon?, which includes details for the installation of inventory beacons.