Supported Inventory Solution Platforms - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Option
Custom inventory
Application metering
inventory
Baseline inventory

Supported Inventory Solution platforms

Inventory types (continued)
Table 1-1
Additional types of inventory can be gathered using other Symantec products.
See "Supported Inventory Solution platforms"
You can collect inventory from a wide range of platforms enabling you to easily
gather data in a heterogeneous environment. You can gather inventory on
Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Mac computers. A separate inventory agent is required
for each platform. However, pre-configured policies can automatically and
remotely install the appropriate agent on each computer.
See "Preparing managed computers for inventory and metering"
When you configure inventory policies, you select the computers you want to
inventory . You can also customize policies based on the settings that are available
for each platform.
Supported Inventory Solution platforms
Description
The additional data you can gather beyond the
predefined data classes in Inventory Solution.
You can create additional data classes that may be
unique to your environment. You then run the custom
scripts that collect the custom inventory data classes.
The data you can gather about the usage of
applications.
You can monitor the following information:
The start and stop events for the application that
are sent to the CMDB
Summary data of monitored applications
This data helps you track how often an application is
used, not only if it is installed. This data can help you
manage your application licenses.
Note:
Application metering is a Windows-only feature.
The data you can gather about the files and registry
settings on a computer. You can detect how a
computer s files and registry settings change over time.
You can also detect the differences between a computer
and a reference computer.
on page 15.
Introducing Inventory Solution
on page 25.
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