Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual page 50

50 Gathering inventory on managed computers
Inventory advanced options: Files Properties Scan Settings tab
Software inventory behavior for different platforms (continued)
Table 4-8
Possible settings Behavior of the
on the Software software scan
Scan Settings tab agent on Windows
Includes only the file N/A
system type and does
not exclude any file
system. Does not
include or exclude
any folders.
Includes only folders Scans only the
and does not exclude included folders.
any folder. Does not
include or exclude
any drives or file
system types.
Excludes a parent Does not scan the
folder, but includes child folder.
the child folder of it.
Includes a parent Scans the parent
folder, but excludes folder, but ignores
the child folder of it. the child folder.
Excludes a parent Scans only the
drive, but includes a included folder.
folder on it.
Excludes the file N/A
system type, but
includes a folder with
this file system type.
Includes a parent Scans the entire
drive, but excludes a drive but ignores the
folder on it. excluded folder.
Includes the file N/A
system type, but
excludes a folder
with this file system
type.
Behavior of the Behavior of the
software scan software scan
agent on agent on Mac
UNIX/Linux
Does not scan N/A
anything
Scans only the Scans only the
included folders. included folders.
Scans the included Scans the included
child folder. child folder.
Scans the parent Scans the parent
folder, but ignores folder, but ignores
the child folder. the child folder.
N/A Scans only the
included folder.
Does not scan the N/A
included folder.
N/A Scans the entire drive
but ignores the
excluded folder.
Does not scan N/A
anything