About Methods For Gathering Software Inventory - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

36 Gathering inventory on managed computers

About methods for gathering software inventory

About methods for gathering software inventory
Predefined inventory policies and tasks (continued)
Table 4-1
Policy Enabled by
default?
Collect Full Yes
Server
Inventory
(Inventory
Pack for
Servers
required)
Collect Delta No
Server
Inventory
(Inventory
Pack for
Servers
required)
You can gather inventory about the software applications that are installed in
your environment. For example, you can gather information about the application
version, build number, and manufacturer.
When you perform a software inventory, you can use different methods to gather
different types of data.
Methods for gathering software inventory
Table 4-2
Method
Basic application file
inventory
Default Default
schedule target
Weekly, All
every computers
Monday at with the
18:00 (6:00 Server
P.M.) Inventory
plug-in
installed
Weekly, All
every computers
Monday at with the
18:00 (6:00 Server
P.M.) Inventory
plug-in
installed
Description
This scans the file system on target computers and reports
software inventory based on the application exe files that
are found. For example, it reports file name, size, path, and
so on.
You can perform this inventory by selecting the File
Properties option in the Inventory policies or tasks.
Notes
This task only exists if the Inventory
Pack for Servers product is installed.
See "About Inventory Pack for
Servers" on page 12.
Even though this policy is enabled by
default, you must install the
Inventory plug-in on target
computers before inventory data is
gathered.
See "Preparing managed computers
for inventory and metering"
on page 25.
By default, this policy collects only
the server applications inventory
data that has changed since the last
full server inventory.
See "Inventory advanced options:
Run options tab" on page 51.