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Performing advanced software deliveries
About advanced software deliveries
About advanced software deliveries
About deferring the execution of software remediation
About installing software that replaces other software
About delivering multiple software resources and tasks
Delivering multiple software resources and tasks sequentially
About the status of Managed Software Delivery policies
In many organizations, administrators spend the majority of their software
delivery time on a minority of advanced delivery activities. Managed Software
Delivery simplifies advanced software deliveries by letting you deliver software
as a unit, which can include multiple software resources as well as dependencies.
For example, you can create a single Managed Software Delivery policy that installs
an application and its associated patches and service packs. Managed Software
Delivery can also run any task at any stage of the delivery. For example, it can
run a task that performs a restart or runs a script.
Managed Software Delivery is a policy-based delivery method that lets you respond
to an assortment of advanced delivery requirements.
See
"Performing an advanced software delivery"
The power of Managed Software Delivery lies in the following abilities:
To intelligently perform the compliance checks and the remediation actions
that let you not only deliver software but also manage it.
To leverage the software resource information and the logic that is in the
Software Catalog such as dependencies, packages, and detection rules.
To conserve bandwidth by downloading packages only when they are needed.
If a client computer does not have the appropriate configuration for the
software or if the software is already installed, the package is not downloaded.
To perform multiple delivery actions with a single policy.
See
"Advanced delivery actions that Managed Software Delivery can perform"
on page 97.
The software that you deliver in this way must be defined as a software resource
in the Software Catalog. If the software is not defined, contact an administrator
who can edit the Software Catalog.
For more information, see the topics about the Software Catalog in the Symantec
Management Platform Help.
on page 104.
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