'Hardware' Page for Advanced/Patch Insights for Intune

Applies to: Advanced Insights for Intune

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Note

The Hardware page is only available in Advanced Insights for Intune, which requires an Enterprise Premium license.

Enhanced hardware inventory is another significant facet of Advanced Insights for Intune. The Patch My PC (PMPC) Client gathers inventory data across a range of inventory properties to improve visibility and management of your estate.

The Hardware page of Advanced Insights for Intune shows key statistics from your environment and is split into the following sections:

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Note

See About Advanced/Patch Insights for Intune Dashboards and Working with Advanced/Patch Insights for Intune Dashboards for more information.

Also, only devices running the Patch My PC (PMPC) Client will appear on this page. See Manage Client Deployment for more details on deploying and managing the PMPC Client.

Advanced Insights for Intune ‘Hardware’ page

Tabs

The Tabs control lets you switch between different views of hardware data.

By default, the General tab is selected.

‘General’ tab

The layout of the views differs depending on the tab you select.

For example, clicking the Network Adapters tab shows a mix of Statistics, Charts, and data tables.

‘Network Adapters’ view

As is standard, clicking an item displays more data that you can drill down into or show in a different view.

Statistics

The top row of the Hardware page is called Statistics and displays the following statistics.

Statistic
Shows the number of…

Clients deployed

PMPC Clients deployed in your PMPC Cloud Company.

Total external displays

External monitors detected.

Total batteries

Batteries detected.

Total logical disks

Logical disks detected, highlighting any disks reporting predictive failure.

Advanced Insights for Intune ‘Hardware’ page

Clicking any of these statistics opens the device list modal, which contains the following additional information:

Statistic
Shows information about the…

Clients deployed

Which devices our Client is deployed to, including:

Computer Name, User Name, Client Version, Manufacturer, and Model.

Total external displays

External monitors attached to your Clients, including:

Computer Name, User Name, Model, Serial Number, Manufacturer, Manufacturer Year, and Connection Type.

Total batteries

Batteries detected in your Clients, including:

User, Name, Serial number, Chemistry, Full charge capacity, Design capacity, Health as a percentage, and Computer Name.

Total logical disks

Logical disks configured on your Clients, including:

Computer Name, User Name, Disk Name, Status, Disk ID, and Size in gigabytes.

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Charts

The Charts section of the Hardware page contains the following charts:

Chart
Shows a breakdown by…

Device Specs

Manufacturer of the different devices detected in your environment.

External Displays

Manufacturer of the different external monitors detected in your environment.

Battery Specs

Health of the different batteries detected in your environment.

Disk Statistics

The percentage of free disk space for the logical disks detected in your environment.

Charts section

Clicking the action menu () for a chart allows you to switch between the following views:

Chart
Available views

Device Specs

  • Device Manufacturer (default)

  • Device Memory

  • Device Model

External Displays

  • Display Manufacturer (default)

  • Display Size

  • Display Resolution

  • Display Year

Battery Specs

  • Battery Health (default)

  • Battery Chemistry

Disk Statistics

  • Disk Space (default)

  • Disk Status

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Note

When you click a segment, the device list modal displays the data only for that segment. Likewise, if you switch to a different view and click a segment of the donut, the device list modal only displays the data for the selected view and that segment.

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