User manual SYMANTEC INVENTORY FOR NETWORK DEVICES 7.0 SP2

[. . . ] AltirisTM Inventory for Network Devices from Symantec User's Guide Version 7. 0 AltirisTM Inventory for Network Devices from Symantec User's 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 Legal Notice Copyright © 2008 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, Altiris, and any Altiris or Symantec trademarks used in the product are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] See "Gathering agentless inventory" on page 16. 18 Gathering agentless inventory Creating agentless inventory tasks using the wizard To create Network inventory tasks using the agentless inventory wizard 1 2 3 4 In the Symantec Management Console, on the Home menu, click Discovery and Inventory > Agentless Inventory. In the Agentless Inventory Quick Start, click Run inventory wizard. In the wizard, select whether to inventory a group of devices or an individual device. To inventory a group of devices, do the following: Click Choose devices. Select the group of target devices you want to inventory from the drop-down menu. You use the organizational views feature of Notification Server to filter the target devices you want to inventory. You can use pre-existing filters or create your own. For example, you can use filters to target devices in a certain location or department. You can also filter by a certain asset or network resource type. For a default filter, you can select All Resources > Asset > Network Resource. For more information, see topics about using filters and organizational views in the Symantec Management Platform Help. Select the type of devices you want to inventory. 5 To inventory an individual device, do the following: Click Individual device: Select the device from the drop-down list. This list includes all devices that have been previously discovered and have a resource in the CMDB. 6 7 8 Click Next. See "Scheduling agentless inventory tasks" on page 21. 9 Click Finish. You may need to click the refresh symbol to view newly created tasks. You can also click Manage > Jobs and Tasks > System Jobs and Tasks > Discovery and Inventory. 10 To view the created tasks, view the lists of tasks on the Agentless Inventory Gathering agentless inventory Manually creating and modifying agentless inventory tasks 19 Manually creating and modifying agentless inventory tasks You can manually create and modify tasks from the Task Management Portal. This option lets you configure advanced options and schedules. See "About gathering agentless inventory" on page 15. See "Gathering agentless inventory" on page 16. To manually create agentless inventory tasks 1 In the Symantec Management Console, do one of the following: On the Home menu, click Discovery and Inventory > Agentless Inventory and then in the Agentless Inventory Tasks Web part, click Available Tasks > New. On the Manage menu, click Jobs and Tasks, click Create a new job or task, and from the list, under Discovery and Inventory, click Inventory for Network Devices. 2 3 4 On the task properties page, give the task a descriptive name. Select whether to inventory a group of devices or an individual device. [. . . ] For example, it can map to the Object ID for an SNMP query. When you click this field, you use the Object ID Selection Tool dialog to select an Object ID from the available MIBs. You can view the detail of the Object ID information when a row is selected in the column definition table. See "About SNMP data mapping" on page 25. 5 6 7 Click OK. [. . . ]