About Assigning 6.X Software Packages To Software Resources - Symantec ALTIRIS 7.0 SP2 - MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Manual

152 Delivering 6.x software packages

About assigning 6.x software packages to software resources

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Advanced tab
About assigning 6.x software packages to software
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How a Legacy Software Delivery policy differs from a 6.x Software
Table 10-3
Delivery task
Differences in a 7.0 Legacy Software Delivery policy
A Legacy Software Delivery policy contains the following sections:
Policy Rules/Actions
Contains the General tab, Advanced tab, and Status tab.
Applied to
Lets you add or change the delivery destinations.
For more information, see the topics about specifying the targets of a policy in the Symantec
Management Platform Help.
Schedule
Lets you add or change the delivery schedule.
See "Schedule settings for Managed Software Delivery"
The General tab in a Legacy Software Delivery policy differs from a 6.x Software Delivery task
in the following ways:
The options to select a policy s target and schedule are no longer on this tab.
The Package Name link opens the 7.0 Select Software dialog box instead of the 6.x Package
Selector dialog box.
The Go to Package link opens the 7.0 Add or Edit Package dialog box instead of the package s
Package tab.
The Go to Program link opens the 7.0 Add or Edit Command Line dialog box instead of the
package s Programs tab.
For UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS deliveries, the Removal section and the Availability section
are eliminated.
The Advanced tab in a Legacy Software Delivery policy differs from a 6.x software delivery task
in the following ways:
This tab contains the Download and Execution Options section.
This tab contains the Program options section.
This section contains some of the options from the 6.x package s Advanced tab.
In UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS policies, this tab contains the same options as the Windows
delivery policies.
When you upgrade from Notification Server 6.x to Symantec Management Platform
7.0, you can migrate 6.x software packages for both Windows and non-Windows
software. After you migrate a 6.x software package, we recommend that you deliver
on page 55.