Inventory Advanced Options: Run Options Tab - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Inventory advanced options: Run options tab

Software inventory behavior for different platforms (continued)
Table 4-8
Possible settings Behavior of the
on the Software software scan
Scan Settings tab agent on Windows
Does not include any Does or does not
files. exclude files.
Includes a few files. The included files are
Does not exclude scanned in the scope
files. that is defined by
drives and folders.
Includes a few files Scans the files
and also exclude matching include
files. file s criteria.
Out of these, those
matching the exclude
criteria are excluded
from reporting to the
CMDB.
This tab lets you configure the run options of an inventory scan.
See "Manually creating and modifying inventory policies and tasks"
Run Options tab
Table 4-9
Option
Send inventory changes (deltas)
only
Gathering inventory on managed computers
Inventory advanced options: Run options tab
Behavior of the
software scan
agent on
UNIX/Linux
Does not scan any
files.
The included files are
scanned in the scope
that is defined by the
file system types and
folders.
Files not matching
the exclude file s
criteria and matching
include file s criteria
are reported to the
CMDB.
Description
You can select this option to send only the changes since
the previous inventory. This way, less inventory data
is sent across the network to the CMDB.
You might want to resend a complete inventory in the
following conditions:
You reset or cleaned-up your CMDB data.
You purged the inventory data.
For troubleshooting purposes, you might want a
complete inventory of a computer or application
folder.
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Behavior of the
software scan
agent on Mac
Does not scan any
files.
The included files are
scanned in the scope
that is defined by the
drives and folders.
Files not matching
the exclude file s
criteria and matching
include file s criteria
are reported to the
CMDB.
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