Creating Customized Windows Installer Policies And Tasks - Symantec ALTIRIS 7.0 SP2 - MANAGEMENT SOLUTION Manual

204 Managing Windows Installer applications

Creating customized Windows Installer policies and tasks

Creating customized Windows Installer policies and
tasks
Management reports that are listed under the Software reports. Create your own
policies and tasks only if the predefined policies and tasks do not meet your needs.
See "Running a Software Management Solution report"
A software resource for the Application Management agent is created in the
Software Catalog when Software Management Solution is installed. You can use
this software resource to create your own policies and tasks to repair Windows
Installer applications or to update their source paths.
See "Creating customized Windows Installer policies and tasks"
You can determine where the Application Management agent is installed. Create
a Targeted Software Inventory policy for the Application Management agent s
software resource so you can look for the agent on selected client computers.
For more information, see the topics about Targeted Software Inventory in the
Inventory Solution Help.
A software resource for the Application Management agent is created in the
Software Catalog when Software Management Solution is installed. You can use
this software resource to create your own policies and tasks to repair Windows
Installer applications or to update their source paths. Create your own policies
and tasks only if the predefined policies and tasks do not meet your needs.
See "About the Application Management agent"
Process for creating and customizing Windows Installer policies and
Table 15-6
tasks
Step Action
Step 1 Create a customized
command line for the
Application Management
agent package in the
Software Catalog.
on page 83.
on page 203.
Description
You can either edit an existing command line
or create a new command line.
See "Command-line options for the
Application Management agent"
For more information, see the topics about
adding and editing command lines in the
Symantec Management Platform Help.
on page 204.
on page 205.