Selecting Satellite Server for imaging enables content on the device Zicon property page

When you add a Satellite Server in the server hierarchy and disable content and collection but enable imaging services, the ZCC shows that the device is disabled as a CDP (Content Distribution Point) but the Zicon properties on the device itself shows Content Distribution Point module as Running and a content-repo folder is maintained on the device.

This is working as designed since inventory services require a subset of content distribution functionality.

The imaging role implicitly requires content replication to be active on the satellite server.  But this subset of content replication does not make it a content server because no bundle content can be explicitly assigned to the satellite server that has only an imaging role.