About Inventory Pack For Servers - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

12 Introducing Inventory Solution

About Inventory Pack for Servers

About Inventory Pack for Servers
You use policies and tasks to perform inventory and application metering
functions. The policies and tasks are easily configured and managed using a central
Web console. The inventory data is stored in the Altiris CMDB database. This
CMDB provides a central store of data that is used across the Symantec
Management Platform. After you have gathered inventory data or metered
applications, you can analyze the data using predefined or custom reports.
For more information, see topics about the CMDB in the Symantec Management
Platform Help.
You can collect the following kinds of inventory data:
Hardware and operating system
Software
File properties
You can use predefined inventory policies to gather inventory with little effort.
See "About predefined inventory policies"
You can also use additional Symantec products to gather inventory data from
handheld computers, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac servers, and
network devices.
See "About what you can inventory"
See "Supported Inventory Solution platforms"
See "Components of Inventory Solution"
See "Methods for gathering inventory"
You can also use Altiris Inventory Pack for Servers, which is a separate product
that lets you gather server-based inventory data from servers.
See "About Inventory Pack for Servers"
Altiris Inventory Pack for Servers is a separate product with a separate license
that gathers server-based inventory data from servers. It runs on top of Inventory
Solution and uses the same Inventory plug-ins, policies, and tasks.
You can gather the following types of server-based inventory data:
Microsoft Windows server operating systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
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