Setting Up The Software Portal With Your User Profile - Symantec ALTIRIS SOFTWARE PORTAL 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

20 Setting up your Software Portal

Setting up the Software Portal with your user profile

Setting up the Software Portal with your user profile
To open the Software Portal
Take one of the following actions:
Double-click the Software Portal shortcut on your Desktop.
On the Start menu, click Programs > Altiris > Software Portal
Right-click the Symantec Management Agent icon in the notification
area and on the agent menu, click Software Portal.
The Software Portal might not be available from all these places on your
computer.
The administrator installs the Software Portal on individual computers and
provides information about how you can access it. Before you can request or
approve software in the Software Portal, you must configure your user profile.
Your user profile contains the information that identifies you in the Software
Portal. If you are a manager, you also specify the users whose software requests
you can process.
You can also specify your preferences for the receipt of email messages about
requests.
See "About request status notifications"
To configure your user profile in the Software Portal
1 To open the Software Portal, do one of the following:
Double-click the Software Portal shortcut on your Desktop.
On the Start menu, click Programs > Altiris > Software Portal
Right-click the Symantec Management Agent icon in the notification
area and on the agent menu, click Software Portal.
Note: The Software Portal might not be available from all these places on
your computer.
2
Click User Profile.
The first time that you access the Software Portal, the User Profile tab
appears automatically.
on page 17.