SDK

I created an article discussing how to utilize a simple ping utility in conjunction with Task Server and Connector Solution to create a job which reports on which machines are up or down. The natural extension to this would be to attempt to "wake" or turn on those machines.

This tool will run the "All Packages" report and return the results into a spreadsheet. It will first ask which server you wish to connect to.

Our company is moving to Altiris and we had a need to replicate practices with our current management solution in Altiris. The only way to accomplish our end goal was to roll up our sleeves, get comfy with the ASDK, and script our needs out. I ran into many issues getting started with the ASDK and programming to it in Csharp and I didn't find a lot of documentation or examples to help me through it. There are some things out here on Juice, but I'd like to contribute what I came up with to help out other struggling ASDK'ers.

You can use the ASDK to programmatically generate incidents but you are limited to using the subject and body fields when creating them. You can then use the ASDK to modify fields one by one, which means if you are changing 5+ fields the workers will have to scroll halfway down the page to view the body of an incident.