Manually Creating And Modifying Inventory Policies And Tasks - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

Manually creating and modifying inventory policies
and tasks
To view predefined inventory policies
1 In the Symantec Management Console, on the Manage menu, click Policies.
2 In the tree view, click Policies > Discovery and Inventory > Inventory.
3
Select a policy.
See "Inventory policy options"
To clone (copy) an existing inventory policy
1 In the Symantec Management Console, browse to the item you want to clone.
2 Right-click the item, and click Clone.
3
Give the cloned item a unique name, and click OK.
To use inventory policies
On the inventory policy page, turn on the policy.
At the upper right of the page, click the colored circle, and then click On.
See "Inventory policy options"
You can manually create inventory policies or tasks.To manually create an
inventory task, you use the Task Management Portal. You can create new tasks
or use or modify existing tasks.
See "Using predefined inventory policies"
See "About gathering inventory on managed computers"
Before you can use inventory policies or tasks, you must install the Inventory
plug-in on target computers.
See "Preparing managed computers for inventory and metering"
To manually create inventory policies
1 In the Symantec Management Console, on the Home menu, click Discovery
and Inventory > Inventory.
2 In the Inventory Policy status Web part, click New.
3 Configure the policy.
See "Inventory policy options"
4
Click Save changes.
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