System Requirements

Altiris' Deployment Solution allows you to quickly and easily maintain and manage hundreds of computers from your one computer. This guide will discuss system requirements for and explain how to configure and install the Altiris Deployment Solution 6.9.

Access to certain files and shares are required in order for NS Clients to communicate effectively with Notification Server. When Notification Server is installed, default security settings are used. Depending on your needs, you may need to make changes to your security settings. This article discusses the minimum file and share permissions that are needed for Notification Server to work. It also discusses system and network access needed by Notification Server resources. This will help you in deciding how best to provide security while allowing Notification Server to do perform effectively.

During the architecture and design of an Altiris solution, network traffic is a key factor to determining server placement. The following chart shows the typical network traffic generated between the Altiris Notification Server and the Altiris Notification Server Agent. Use this as a guideline to help plan the placement of Altiris architecture components.

Altiris® Task Server is an infrastructure component that provides task sequencing and automation for Altiris solutions. The functionality is similar to what Altiris® Deployment Solution software provides with its job engine, but it is built on the Altiris® Notification Server infrastructure allowing the rest of the Altiris solution catalog to take advantage of its powerful features, such as:

Now that Altiris is officially a part of Symantec, we are looking at ways to integrate various Symantec solutions with Altiris solutions.

We are looking for customers who are using Symantec Antivirus or Symantec Client Security that would be willing to spend a little time (usually 30-60 minutes) on the phone to help identify potential integration opportunities.