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Altiris and Intel vPro Use Cases,  Part 4:  Auditing and Software Remediation

Altiris and Intel vPro Use Cases, Part 4: Auditing and Software Remediation

Joel Smith's picture

NOTE: If you have not read parts 1 through 3, please read these before reading this part as this is a continuation of the story begun in the previous sections.

Security is only as tight as the weakest link in your environment. More often than not it's internally where the security holes are created, either inadvertently from carelessness or intentionally from a disgruntled or disillusioned employee. The hardware and software security can be top of the line, but if the human factor doesn't adhere to policy, it may not make any difference. This part follows the IT team for Mighty Modern Marketing as they try to track down a security hole where productivity is taken down through the very tools used to defend and manage the network.

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Average: 3.8 (24 votes)
Shell Script to Manage the Unix and Macintosh client.conf hold_queue Value

Shell Script to Manage the Unix and Macintosh client.conf hold_queue Value

Do you hate (or don't know how to use) the Unix and Mac vi editor but need to troubleshoot a Unix or Mac client running the Altiris Agent?

Here are a few tips (and a script) to get you on your way.

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Average: 3.2 (21 votes)
Installing to a Drive Other Than C:

Installing to a Drive Other Than C:

Anovatek TilakGovind's picture

If you have to install applications to any other Physical Drive (not network drive) you can do so in the following way.

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Average: 3.5 (41 votes)
Monitoring Completion Status of RS Integrity Check or SSM jobs

Monitoring Completion Status of RS Integrity Check or SSM jobs

Do you ever look at your Recovery Solution job queue and wonder "I wonder how far along that Integrity Check/SSM job is?" Well I did, and was very frustrated since there wasn't a good way I had found to monitor the progress. Well, by using the following Stored Procedure, you too can find out about the progress of the job.

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Average: 3.8 (44 votes)
In Search of CPUs and Cores

In Search of CPUs and Cores

Who among you has ever looked at the CPU information that the Altiris hardware inventory gathers and said "That's not what I need. I need to know how many physical CPUs are there, or how many cores there are, or whether this is a hyper threading CPU, etc."

4.04
Average: 4 (50 votes)
NS Hotfix & Rollup Guide

NS Hotfix & Rollup Guide

cnpalmer75's picture

The release of the newest rollup pack for NS brings about a whole list of added updates.

Have you ever wondered though what was fixed with the current rollup you have installed now?

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Average: 3.7 (39 votes)
BUG! Get out the Raid!

BUG! Get out the Raid!

cnpalmer75's picture

In case anyone else may have missed the release earlier this month, here are the details surrounding the security vulnerability for any Altiris Agent pre- 6.0.2389 build. Linky here...
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/secu...

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Average: 3.8 (37 votes)
Recovery Solution Critical Event Sets... What You Hope Doesn't Happen

Recovery Solution Critical Event Sets... What You Hope Doesn't Happen

cnpalmer75's picture

This is another posting in regards to the articles I've done for Recovery Solution (RS) in the past based around the events which may occur that get written to the application event log.

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Average: 3.6 (26 votes)
Recovery Solution Critical Events Report... In Case You Miss Something

Recovery Solution Critical Events Report... In Case You Miss Something

cnpalmer75's picture

Hot on the heels of my previous post regarding the Recovery Solution (RS) Events list, is this one.

The attached .XML file is an Altiris NS report that will report back any critical RS Event that may have occurred within the last day of activity.

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Average: 4.1 (42 votes)
Recovery Solution Events List (A work in progress...)

Recovery Solution Events List (A work in progress...)

cnpalmer75's picture

I've been working on updating the list I originally drafted to help list out the various events and associated data that could occur within an RS environment (6.2 SP2).

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