About Targeted Software Inventory - Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

54 Gathering inventory on managed computers

About targeted software inventory

About targeted software inventory
You can perform a detailed file inventory in one of two ways:
By selecting the Report detailed file inventory immediately option in the
inventory policies or tasks. This option is enabled by default.
See "Inventory advanced options: Run options tab"
By running the Detailed File Inventory task. This task is scheduled, by default,
to run once a week. You may want to use this method to reduce network traffic
during a normal software inventory scan.
Running a software inventory on client computers can generate a lot of network
traffic. To reduce network bandwidth, you may want to collect basic gather basic
software inventory data first, and then later gather the detailed file inventory in
a two-phased approach.
See "About methods for gathering software inventory"
To accomplish this two-phased approach, do the following:
Configure and run a normal inventory policy or task with the software option
selected and configured.
This task gathers the basic information about the files from the target
computers.
You then run a second task, called the Detailed File Inventory Task.
This task identifies the file resources whose detail inventory is missing. It also
it identifies the computer from where the file detail inventory can be gathered.
This task causes the Software Management Agent to flag this information as
detailed data to be collected during the next software scan.
The Detailed File Inventory task is a predefined task that is scheduled to run
once a week.
See "Gathering detailed file inventory "
The next time you run the normal software inventory, the detailed file
information is gathered and reported to the CMDB.
Targeted software inventory determines whether specific software is installed
on managed computers. To find the software, it uses the software resource and
detection rule information that is defined in the Software Catalog. This feature
works with Windows computers only.
See "About methods for gathering software inventory"
See "Running a targeted software inventory"
To find the software, Targeted Software Inventory uses the following information
that is defined in the Software Catalog:
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