User manual SYMANTEC ALTIRIS SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 V1.0

[. . . ] AltirisTM Software Management Solution from Symantec Users Guide Version 7. 0 SP2 AltirisTM Software Management Solution from Symantec Users Guide The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Documentation version 7. 0 SP2 Legal Notice Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, and Altiris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] You select an installation command line. Warning: If you try to install when a newer version is installed, and both versions cannot coexist on the same computer, the installation fails. See "About installing software that replaces other software" on page 124. Table 6-10 Option Description Settings for tasks Override the policy settings Enables the remaining options in this section and lets you configure settings for for this task delivering this specific task. Upon failure the Managed Delivery will Defines whether the task aborts, continues, or restarts when it fails. When you create a Managed Software Delivery policy, this setting is the same for each task that the policy contains. You can edit the policy to override this setting for each ask. For example, if the execution of the first task fails, you can run subsequent software resource and tasks. Conversely, if one execution in the sequence fails, you can abort the remaining items in the sequence. Lets you define the amount of time to wait before the task terminates if it stops responding. Defines the number of times that the task retries when it fails. Specify when to perform any remediation action that is defined for this task. The options are as follows: Terminate after Max retries Choose when to remediate when compliance fails Immediately At next maintenance window Don't run remediation Lets you run a task without performing the remediation. For example, you might want to perform an applicability check or a compliance check to determine if a certain configuration exists. A report of the results of the check might be all you need, or you might perform some action other than installing or uninstalling software. Performing advanced software deliveries Policy Rules/Actions section 119 Table 6-10 Option Show Task Settings for tasks (continued) Description Opens the task editing dialog box so you can view or edit the task. When you edit the task itself instead of its settings, any other instances of that task are also changed. For example, you create a Package Delivery task to install an FTP client and you add that task to several Managed Software Delivery policies. If you change that task in one Managed Software Delivery policy, the change affects that task as well as all the policies that contain it. Policy Rules/Actions: Policy settings tab This tab lets you change the settings for a Managed Software Delivery policy. Some options on the Policy Settings tab apply to Windows operating systems only and are noted as such. Table 6-11 Option Display name Options on the Policy Settings tab Description Lets you define the name that appears in the Altiris Agent for this policy. The default name is New Managed Software Delivery. Make the name descriptive enough for users to easily identify this software. Display description Lets you type a description to further identify this software and make it more recognizable on the Altiris Agent. Install this policy's software (Windows only) Installs Windows-based software into a virtual software layer on a into a virtual software layer managed computer. The Software Virtualization agent must be installed on the managed computer; otherwise, the software is installed normally. See "Methods for virtualizing software" on page 219. [. . . ] See administrator, Software Portal Software Portal agent installation options 45 installing 46 Software Portal manager. See manager, Software Portal software publishing. See reports, software running 83 software request 164 See also approved software 238 Index software request (continued) approval. See approval, software request approvers 165 closed 171 delivery methods 169 denied 171 email notification. [. . . ]