Inventory Advanced Options - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

46 Gathering inventory on managed computers

Inventory advanced options

Inventory advanced options
Inventory policy options (continued)
Table 4-5
Option
Policy status
Ensure my inventory is current
Select the types of inventory to
gather:
Advanced
Applies To/Compliance
This dialog box lets you configure the advanced options of an inventory task.
See "Manually creating and modifying inventory policies and tasks"
See "Inventory policy options"
This dialog box has the following tabs:
Data Classes
Description
Whether the policy is turned on or off. If the policy
clipboard icon is gray, and the icon is red, the policy is
off. If the policy clipboard icon and the icon are green,
the policy is on.
To turn on the policy , at the upper right of the page,
click the colored circle, click On, then click Save
changes.
The frequency of inventory gathering. You can select
to have inventory gathered daily, weekly, monthly, or
on a custom schedule.
The kind of inventory you gather.
See "About what you can inventory"
You can click Advanced and specify which inventory
data classes to collect.
See "Inventory advanced options: Data Classes tab"
on page 47.
Opens a dialog for advanced settings.
See "Inventory advanced options"
The targets that the policy is applied to and a result
summary.
For more information on configuring targets, view topics
about using policies and filtering rules in the Symantec
Management Platform Help.
on page 45.
The data classes are the specific items of inventory that you can
gather.
See "Inventory advanced options: Data Classes tab"
on page 13.
on page 46.
on page 43.
on page 47.