How Inventory Solution Works With The Software Catalog Data Provider - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

How Inventory Solution works with the Software
Catalog Data Provider

How Inventory Solution works with the Software Catalog Data Provider

for Software Data Provider. You can also see the Inventory Solution Release Notes
for more information.
(Windows only)
See "About using Inventory Solution with the Software Catalog Data Provider"
on page 38.
This process is performed by several components working together. Most all of
the Software Catalog Data Provider components perform automatically, by default.
To have Inventory Solution work with the Software Catalog Data Provider, in the
inventory policy or task , select Software Windows Add/Remove Programs and
in the advanced options, select Report detailed file inventory immediately.
The following is a list of the components of Inventory Solution and Software
Catalog Data Provider.
Software Catalog Data Provider components
Table 4-3
Component
Software Catalog Data
Provider component
Software Catalog Data
Provider task
Gathering inventory on managed computers
Description
This component is installed with Inventory Solution. It
contains a data file with a list of tens of thousands of known
applications. This database will be updated regularly to
include new applications and versions of applications.
To learn more about the Software Catalog Data Provider,
view the Software Catalog Data Provider User Guide which
is installed with Inventory Solution. To view this guide, in
the Symantec Management Console, on the Help menu,
click Documentation Library > Software Catalog Data
Provider Users Guide. For information on updating the
Software Catalog Data Provider data file of known
applications, see the Inventory Solution 7.0 SP2 Release
Notes.
When the database of known applications is installed, this
task automatically imports the list into the CMDB. To view
this read-only task, from the Symantec Management
Console, on the Settings menu, click All Settings > Software
> Data Provider > Providers > Software Catalog Data
Provider.
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