About Using Inventory Solution With The Software Catalog Data Provider - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

38 Gathering inventory on managed computers

About using Inventory Solution with the Software Catalog Data Provider

About using Inventory Solution with the Software
Catalog Data Provider
Methods for gathering software inventory (continued)
Table 4-2
Method
Gather software information
and validate it using the
Software Catalog Data
Provider (Windows only)
Targeted software inventory
(Windows only)
(Windows only)
The Software Catalog Data Provider is a new component that can be used to import
software inventory data into the Software Catalog. It is installed with Inventory
Solution. It provides a list of tens of thousands of known applications that is
imported in the CMDB.
See "How Inventory Solution works with the Software Catalog Data Provider"
on page 39.
When you perform a software inventory, that gathered data about applications
can be compared to the list of known applications. If the application data matches,
it helps ensure that your software inventory data is accurate. You can also have
the matched inventory data imported into the Software Catalog. You can view the
list of the applications that are in the Software Catalog. This process happens
automatically with the default Inventory Policy settings.
For more information see the Software Catalog Data Provider User Guide or help.
In the Symantec Management Console, see the Documentation library for a link
Description
The Software Catalog Data Provider is a new component
that can be used to import software inventory data into the
Software Catalog. The Software Catalog Data Provider is
installed with Inventory Solution.
The Software Catalog Data Provider provides a list of tens
of thousands of known applications that is imported in the
CMDB. When you perform a software inventory, that
gathered data about applications can be compared to the
list of known applications. If the application data matches,
it helps ensure that your software inventory data is accurate.
See "About using Inventory Solution with the Software
Catalog Data Provider" on page 38.
On Windows computers, this method lets you use rules to
identify specific software applications. You can perform
this inventory by running the Targeted Software Inventory
policy.
See "About targeted software inventory" on page 54.