Articles, Asset & CMDB

Within the Asset Control piece of Altiris Asset Management Suite there is a Computer Type field which you can select Workstation or Server (under the "Type" tab while creating or editing a Computer asset). We added another designation called "Laptop," but found no reports where this was useful...

I've discovered through asking questions during ManageFusion and working Inventory support issues that not much is known concerning Inventory Solution's User Inventory. Many don't use the data, and that may be in part because not much is said on what the data is and where it comes from. This article will attempt to show how User Inventory operates, where the information comes from, and how we capture the information.

Workflow Solution has captured the attention of many in the industry. Intel, a strong supporter of the Altiris infrastructure, also sees a great deal of potential in this solution. Adding Intel vPro technology to the Workflow story will provide a wider range of abilities. In this series I will explore how the Altiris Manageability Toolkit for vPro Technology can integrate into Workflow Solution using the Notification Server 6.x infrastructure.

This document references Barcode Solution release 6.7 if you are unfamiliar with the changes made in this current release check the out the release notes: https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=37810&p...

This document references Barcode Solution release 6.7 if you are unfamiliar with the changes made in this current release check the out the release notes: https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=37810&p...

Anyone else not generate invoices...well I don't either. However, we still use the invoice portion!

The out of the box Invoice Page and Edit Page were not working for us...so, needless to say, I added some customizations to liven it up! I added a Custom Invoice Information section, which included the following:

This article includes items to be aware of when using SAN technology with SQL Server and Altiris products. Thanks to the Notification Server Sustained Engineering team for initial development work on this document.

Prior to SQL 2005, the only way to easily manage a huge number of objects was to split them up and create one database for each logical subset -- one database for the sales department, another for marketing, still another for human resources, etc.