Installing The Inventory And Application Metering Plug-Ins - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

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Installing the Inventory and Application Metering plug-ins

Installing the Inventory and Application Metering
plug-ins
See "About Inventory Pack for Servers"
To install a plug-in, you configure a policy that installs the plug-in on target
computers. You select the group of computers on which the policy runs and when
it runs. If you choose a group that contains a computer that already has the plug-in
installed, the task is ignored on that computer.
When a policy is turned on, any new computer that is a member of the target
group automatically has the plug-in installed on it.
By default, no plug-in installation policies are enabled. You must manually enable
policies.
See "Installing the Inventory and Application Metering plug-ins"
See " Upgrading the Inventory and Application Metering plug-ins"
To gather inventory data on managed computers, you must install the Inventory
plug-in on target computers. To meter applications on managed computers, you
must install the Application Metering plug-in on target computers. To install a
plug-in, you configure a policy that installs the plug-in on target computers. Two
sets of policies exist to install Inventory plug-ins: one for Windows computers
and another for UNIX, Linux, and Mac computers.
See "About the Inventory and Application Metering plug-ins"
Note: Application metering is a Windows-only feature.
By default, no plug-in installation policies are enabled. You must manually enable
policies.
Before performing this task, you must install the Altiris Agent on target computers.
See "Preparing managed computers for inventory and metering"
To install the Inventory or Application Metering plug-ins
1 In the Symantec Management Console, do one of the following:
On the Actions menu, click Agent/Plug-ins > Rollout Agent/Plug-ins.
On the Settings menu, click All Settings. In the left pane, click
Agent/Plug-ins.
2
In the left pane, click Discovery and Inventory.
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