Asset Management Solution

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.

Just how good is your Inventory Forwarding?

For those of you using multiple Notification Servers to gather inventory, how often do you check your forwarding to make sure that it's showing the same data on both the source and destination NS? If you're not, and you run your reports on the central NS, you could be in for a surprise!

I'm always surprised to find how few customers take advantage of Altiris Inventory Solution's ability to inventory an application's installed serial number. This information can be invaluable when trying to tie copies of applications installed in your environment back to software license agreements.

Managing assets can be a daunting task. This series of articles breaks down the process into four basic areas: New Assets; Deploying assets to employees; Return and edit and finally, shell swap. Tame this beast and your operations should run smoothly.

To review: Altiris has a top level "reporting" Notification Server (NS) that has Asset and Contract Management Solution installed. It manages assets at this level.

Altiris also has a client facing NS that installs agents, manages machines and forwards inventory to the reporting NS.