Asset & CMDB

Report PO's Assets and Location

sfletcher — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:04:41 -0500

Want a report of the assets on a purchase order along with the owner and location? Give this a try.

Asset & CMDB

Setting the Default Collection in a Collection Picker

nravenscroft — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:45:09 -0500

Last time we covered adding a collection picker to your reports. In case you missed it you can find it here. I know after reading the prior tip you were excited beyond belief, and happily adding collection pickers to all your reports.

Asset & CMDB

Using Collection Item Pickers to Filter Reports

nravenscroft — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:01:06 -0500

The Item picker is a great tool for extending the functionality of reports. More specifically the collection picker allows you to dynamically manage the scope of your reports.

Asset & CMDB

Report to Lists All Assets for a Given Purchase Order

sfletcher — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:30:39 -0500

The following query lets you see all assets for a given PO number. Notice the WHERE clause at the end where you can substitute a parameter to allow you to specify a PO Number at runtime.

Asset & CMDB

Adding Software License Types

sfletcher — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:46:10 -0500

If you would like to track other types of software licenses other than "Concurrent" or "Per Installed Node", you can add your own. For example "Per Processor" or "Enterprise".

Asset & CMDB

BarCode Manager and BarCoder Install Best Practice

savnhga — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:38:11 -0500

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...

Asset & CMDB

Software Delivery Solution and the Notification Server ItemReference Table

Joel Smith — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:35:24 -0500

How does Notification Server know what systems to assign a Task to? How does the Notification Server know what Program, and thus command-line, should be executed within a Task? Furthermore, how does it know what Package is associated with the Task? These questions and more are explored by focusing on the Notification Server core table ItemReference and how Software Delivery Solution utilizes it.

Asset & CMDB

Customizing Invoices and a Custom Report

DeborahAlbrecht — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:18:07 -0500

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:

Asset & CMDB

How Does Unix Basic Inventory Identify the 'Apache HTTP Server' Role

dougj — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:03:12 -0500

In order for a Linux client to be setup as a package server, it must be identified as a package server candidate. One of the criteria is that the machine have a role of 'Apache HTTP Server'. The role is stored in the 'AeX AC Roles' data class and 'Inv_aex_ac_roles' table. How does the Agent for Unix on a client machine identify this role?

Asset & CMDB

Shell Script to Manage the Unix and Macintosh Client.conf 'debug_level' Value

dougj — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:42:15 -0500

Quite often, it is necessary to modify certain values in the agent's client.conf file on Unix, Linux or Macintosh clients when troubleshooting issues. Among those values is the debug_level. The attached shell scripts can be used to facilitate this process in place of using an editor to make this modification to a client.conf file.

Asset & CMDB