Purpose

This article provides step by step instructions on how to enable inventory history change settings for auditing and receive notifications by email alert.

How to enable inventory history change setting?

1. Login Console, Open Menu Configure - Inventory History:
   
2. Select the information in which you would like to audit. In the example below, the physical memory size changes will be tracked:
   
3. The PC inventory can be checked manually by right-clicking on the machine and selecting 'Inventory History'. In the example below, notice the physical memory has changed from 3071MB to 2047MB.

How to get notification by email alert?

1. If you want to be notified by email when a specific change is discovered, you may configure the email alert following the outline below:
   
   2. Drag 'Inventory Server- Attribute' modified to the bottom bar 'Alerts'.
   
2. Create a new action under 'Send e-mail' and drag it to 'Actions'.
   
3. Drag the 'Time' attribute to 'Time' and click the 'Publish' button.
   
4. The newly created Alert can now be seen within the Alerting Ruleset on the Core server as seen in the screenshot below:
   

Reference

https://help.landesk.com/docs/help/en_US/LDMS/10.0/Content/Windows/inventory-help.htm?cshid=Inventory_History_Change_Log…

https://help.landesk.com/docs/help/en_US/LDMS/10.0/Content/Windows/alert-c-monitoring-overview.htm?cshid=Alert_Form

How to create a simple alert setting to test alert issue.