Gathering Custom Inventory - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Gathering custom inventory

See "About creation interfaces"
You can change a custom data class in following ways if it is saved in the CMDB
and is empty:
You can add nullable, non-nullable, key, non-key attributes
You can delete an attribute
You can change the properties of an attribute
You cannot modify the data class in any of these ways if it has data.
Warning: Use caution if you are gathering a data class using the custom inventory
and the data class is also part of standard inventory. If you perform a standard
inventory after performing a custom inventory, the data gathered during the
standard inventory overwrites the data gathered in the data classes during custom
inventory. To ensure that the data that is gathered during custom inventory is
displayed in the reports, you must perform custom inventory after the standard
inventory.
See "Gathering custom inventory"
Custom Inventory lets you customize the set of inventory data that is gathered
and reported to CMDB.
See "About gathering custom inventory"
To perform a Custom Inventory
1 Create a custom data class from the data class manager user interface.
See "Creating and customizing the data class"
2 Create a Script task and schedule the script to run on the target computers.
See "About gathering custom inventory"
See "Creating a custom inventory script task"
3 Use generic NSE interfaces to store and post the gathered inventory to the
CMDB.
See "About creation interfaces"
4 View the gathered inventory through reports.
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