About Gathering Inventory On Managed Computers - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

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About gathering inventory on managed computers

About gathering inventory on managed computers
About targeted software inventory
Gathering detailed file inventory
Running a targeted software inventory
You can gather inventory data by running automated policies and tasks on
managed computers. This method requires the Altiris Agent and an Inventory
plug-in that you install on target computers. The inventory policies and tasks use
the Inventory plug-in to perform the inventory scan on the target computer. The
inventory data is sent to the CMDB.
See "Preparing managed computers for inventory and metering"
See "Methods for gathering inventory"
See "About methods for gathering software inventory"
You can also use Altiris Inventory Pack for Servers, which is a separate product,
to gather inventory data from servers. If you have Inventory Pack for Servers
installed, it uses the same type of inventory policies.
See "About Inventory Pack for Servers"
To gather inventory on a recurring schedule, you use inventory policies. Inventory
Solution includes predefined inventory policies that you can use, or you can create
your own. You can use unique policies and schedules for different kinds of
inventory. For example, you can have one policy collect hardware inventory daily
and another policy collect software inventory weekly.
See "About inventory policies and tasks "
You can use predefined inventory policies to gather inventory with little effort.
See "About predefined inventory policies"
See "Using predefined inventory policies"
Before you gather inventory on managed computers, you must install the Inventory
plug-in on target computers.
See "Gathering inventory on managed computers"
See "About the Inventory and Application Metering plug-ins"
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