Symantec ALTIRIS 6 INVENTORY SOLUTION User manual

CLIENT & MOBILE MANAGEMENT
BENEFITS
>Inventory virtually any
system, including Windows,
UNIX, Linux, NetWare,
Macintosh, and handheld
and network devices
>Improve application
supportability and reduce
support costs
>Reduce cost and complexity
associated with application
and OS rollouts and updates
>Mobile-friendly features
include reporting of delta
changes, a cache and forward
design, and over-the-wire
data compression
>Extend management
capabilities as business
grows, matures, and
business needs change
Altiris®6
Inventory Solution®
COMPREHENSIVE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
INVENTORY FOR YOUR ENTIRE ENTERPRISE
INVENTORY IS WHERE IT BEGINS
To effectively manage your enterprise, you need
an accurate and thorough inventory of your
desktops, servers, notebooks, handhelds, and
network devices. Knowing what you have and
where it’s located empowers you to reduce IT
support costs, protect your network, improve
success of software deployments, and focus on
higher-level objectives.
KNOW WHAT’S OUT THERE
It’s no longer a complicated and time-consuming
undertaking to gather detailed hardware and
software assessment across your enterprise.
Inventory Solution provides a comprehensive
assessment of your discoverable assets supporting
virtually any platform, including Windows*, UNIX*,
Linux*, Macintosh*, NetWare*, Palm*, RIM*, and
network devices.The solution provides you with
the foundation you need to achieve your asset
management goals by allowing you to aggregate
data across your environment so you can quickly
and easily generate software audit reports, assess
security vulnerabilities, and more accurately
determine hardware needs and availability.
IMPROVE SYSTEM SUPPORTABILITY
With Inventory Solution you can improve
application supportability and reduce support costs.
The solution allows you to identify unique applications
and versions across your enterprise so you can
quickly determine which systems are out of
compliance with corporate standards. In addition,
by identifying unauthorized software, you can
decrease your exposure to system incompatibilities
and security and virus threats. Inventory Solution
also includes hundreds of pre-packaged Web
reports making hardware and software inventory
readily available to your help desk and IT support
staff so they can easily troubleshoot and better
forecast future problems.
SPEED APPLICATION ROLLOUTS
Inventory Solution helps you reduce the cost and
complexity associated with application and OS
rollouts and updates. Use the solution and built-in
Web reports to quickly and easily identify hardware
that requires upgrading or replacement and more
accurately target application and OS updates.
EXTENSIBLE MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE
With Altiris you not only benefit from
comprehensive integration with its powerful suites
and solutions, you also gain the no-hassle benefits
of a single-vendor, which reduces training and
support costs.You also benefit from a faster return
on investment and a lower total cost of ownership
than a best-of-breed approach. Inventory Solution
is a component of the Altiris extensible management
architecture (EMA), so you benefit from native
integration with Altiris help desk, asset management,
and software management solutions, making it easy
to extend capabilities as your business grows and
matures and your business needs change.
Inventory Solution serves as the first step in
gaining deeper control over your organization's
hardware and software assets. For example, by
upgrading to Altiris®Asset Management Suite™,
Client Management Suite™, or Server Management
Suite™, Inventory Solution allows you to correlate
application installation information with Altiris
application usage and contract administration data
to provide complete software license management.
By optimizing your software license environment,
your organization can benefit from dramatic cost
savings from harvesting unused license, reducing
maintenance and support contract renewals, and
more accurate planning for future software needs.
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Altiris®Inventory Solution®reduces the cost of identifying and managing
heterogeneous devices throughout your enterprise. Easily track comprehensive
hardware information, installed software packages, and operating system settings
for all IT assets throughout their lifecycle. Data is normalized, consolidated, and
secured in a central repository, enabling detailed reporting of asset information
from the convenience of a Web console.

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Inventory Solution
includes hundreds of
pre-packaged Web
reports for quick
access to detailed
inventory information.
This report displays
a count of all the
operating systems,
including versions
and service packs.
TRY INVENTORY SOLUTION
FOR FREE!
Download a free 30-day
evaluation version of
Inventory Solution at
www.altiris.com/eval.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Inventory Solution requires that you install and
configure the Altiris Notification Server™.
Notification Server Minimum Requirements
>Processor—Pentium*lll 800 MHz or faster
>Memory—1 GB RAM
>Hard drive—20 GB
>Operating system—Windows Server 2003 or
Windows 2000 Server
>Database—Microsoft*SQL Server 2000 SP3
>Browser—Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later
Altiris Agent Minimum Requirements
>Operating system—Windows 95 or later
>Available disk space—5 MB disk space for Altiris
Agent, plus space to install required software
>Memory—64 MB RAM
>Browser—Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or later
Palm and Pocket PC Device Requirements
>Disk space—1 MB
>Program memory—2 MB for Palm, 16 MB for
Pocket PC
>Operating system—Palm 2.0 or later;Windows
CE 3.0, Pocket PC 2000/2002 or Windows
Mobile 2003
Supported UNIX/Linux Platforms
>AIX*
>HP-UX*
>Red Hat*
>Solaris*
>SUSE*
>UnitedLinux*
Macintosh Requirements
>Processor—PowerPC*G3, G4, or G5
>Memory—64 MB RAM
>Operating system—Mac*OS X 10.2.8 or later
CLIENT & MOBILE MANAGEMENT
“Altiris Inventory Solution
came out ahead of all the
others from a capabilities
standpoint, and it was also
the most affordable. Inventory
Solution made an immediate
impact and is now being used
in all of Koch’s companies.
Thanks to Altiris Inventory
Solution, we spend our time
doing what end users need,
not supporting our own
management tools.”
—TRA CUNNINGHAM
Platform Analyst
Koch Industries, Inc.
Client Management Suite
91210-10 082206