About Inventory Policies And Tasks - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

About inventory policies and tasks

When you want to run an inventory, you use policies or tasks to configure the
inventory configuration options that you want run on target computers. You can
choose to gather inventory immediately or you can schedule it. When you want
to gather inventory on a recurring schedule, you use inventory policies.
When you use policies, any new computer that is a member of the target group
automatically has the policy run on it.
See "About predefined inventory policies"
See "Using predefined inventory policies"
To use inventory policies or tasks, you must install the Inventory plug-in on target
computers.
See "Preparing managed computers for inventory and metering"
You can use policies and tasks in the following ways.
Use predefined policies
Clone and modify existing policies
Create your own policies
Gathering inventory on managed computers
About inventory policies and tasks
on page 34.
on page 42.
A few predefined policies are provided to help
simplify inventory gathering. You can use
predefined policies as they are or modify them to
fit your needs. If you want to modify a predefined
policy, we recommend that you clone the original
policy and then modify the copy.
See "About predefined inventory policies"
on page 34.
See "Using predefined inventory policies"
on page 42.
You can clone (copy) existing policies and then
modify them to meet your needs.
See "Using predefined inventory policies"
on page 42.
See "Inventory policy options"
For more information, see topics about cloning
policies in the Symantec Management Platform
Help.
You can create your own policies and configure
them to meet your needs.
See "Manually creating and modifying inventory
policies and tasks" on page 43.
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on page 25.
on page 45.