What You Can Do With Inventory Solution - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Tool
Application metering
Baseline inventory (formerly
in Altiris Application
Management Solution)

What you can do with Inventory Solution

Inventory tools (continued)
Table 1-2
Description
In addition to knowing what applications are installed, you can identify the usage of
installed applications. You can also restrict applications from being run.
Note:
Application metering is a Windows-only feature.
See "About metering and denying applications"
You can determine how a client computer's inventory data changes compared to a
baseline. You can detect how a computer's inventory has changed over time, or the
differences between a computer and a reference computer.
See "About baseline inventory"
The Symantec Management Platform gathers basic inventory from managed
computers. Inventory Solution adds the ability to gather substantially more data
as well as other tools to help you gather and use your inventory data.
Inventory data can be used do the following:
Obtain an up-to-date inventory of the computers in your network and their
operating system platforms.
Identify the computers that do not meet minimum security requirements, such
as antivirus software, application updates, management agents, and so on.
Help prepare for a software license audit by providing the number of installed
instances of an application.
Help determine which computers need to be replaced according to age or
capabilities.
Identify the types and amounts of personal data that is stored on computers,
such as MP3 files, MPG files, and so on.
Prepare for operating system migrations by doing the following:
Identify the number of different operating systems that are installed.
Identify the computers that do and do not meet minimum hardware
requirements for a new operating system.
Identify the users of computers to be migrated.
Determine which applications need to be re-deployed after the migration.
Compare the files or registry settings of client computers against a baseline.
Introducing Inventory Solution
What you can do with Inventory Solution
on page 85.
on page 107.
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