Symantec ALTIRIS BARCODE SOLUTION 7.0

Altiris™Barcode Solution

from Symantec™User's

Guide

Version 7.0

Barcode Solution User's Guide

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4

Chapter 1 Introducing Symantec Barcode Solution ....................... 11

About Symantec Barcode Solution ................................................... 11

Symantec Barcode Solution features and benefits .............................. 12

Components of Barcode Solution ..................................................... 12

How Barcode Solution works .......................................................... 13

Chapter 2 Using Barcode Solution ...................................................... 15

Using Barcode Solution ................................................................. 15

Creating a synchronization profile .................................................. 16

Installing Barcode Manager ........................................................... 17

Synchronizing data ...................................................................... 18

Scanning assets ........................................................................... 18

Uploading data from the barcode device ........................................... 19

Verifying asset data ...................................................................... 19

About ownership and editing associations ........................................ 20

Resolving conflicts ....................................................................... 20

Viewing Barcode Solution reports ................................................... 21

Chapter 3 Using Barcode Solution's User Interface ........................ 23

Barcode Solution Home page Web-parts ........................................... 24

Barcode Solution home page: Assets without a Barcode

Web-part .............................................................................. 25

Barcode Solution home page: Profile Summary Web-part .................... 25

Barcode Solution home page: Quick Links Web-part ........................... 26

Barcode Solution home page: Summary of Assets Scanned

Web-part .............................................................................. 27

Barcode Solution home page: Summary of Verification Batches

Web-part .............................................................................. 28

Batch Uploads page ...................................................................... 28

Batch Details page ........................................................................ 29

Unresolved Conflicts page ............................................................. 29

Resource Details page ................................................................... 30

Contents

Barcode Solution: Scanning folder ................................................... 30

Assign Barcode page ..................................................................... 31

Quick Scan page ........................................................................... 32

Receiving page ............................................................................ 33

Receiving Warning page ................................................................ 34

Search page ................................................................................ 34

Resource Edit Details .................................................................... 35

Barcode License Count Exceeded page .............................................. 36

Install Symantec Barcode Manager page ........................................... 36

Synchronization Profile page ......................................................... 36

Synchronization Profile page: Resources tab ..................................... 37

Synchronization Profiles page: Select Data Classes and Associations

tab ...................................................................................... 38

Synchronization Profiles page: Permissions tab ................................. 39

Synchronization Profiles page: Synchronization tab ........................... 40

License Usage page ....................................................................... 40

Merge Settings page ..................................................................... 41

Add to Barcode Export List page ..................................................... 42

Barcode Solution Reports folder ...................................................... 42

Chapter 4 Using Barcoder .................................................................... 43

About barcoder and the barcode device ............................................ 43

Starting barcoder ......................................................................... 44

Synchronizing barcoder ................................................................ 44

Searching for a barcode value in barcoder ......................................... 44

Adding a Barcode Value to an existing asset with barcoder .................. 45

Adding a new asset with the barcode device ...................................... 46

Using barcoder to inventory assets .................................................. 47

About barcode sheets .................................................................... 48

Chapter 5 Using the Barcoder menu .................................................. 49

Search template options ................................................................ 49

About the Asset scan template ........................................................ 51

Quick Scan template options .......................................................... 51

About the Location Scan template ................................................... 52

About the Owner Scan template ..................................................... 52

About the Assign Barcode template ................................................ 53

About the Receiving template ......................................................... 53

About the New Asset template ........................................................ 54

About the Inventory Browse template .............................................. 54

About the Location Audit template ................................................. 54

About RFID Audit template ............................................................ 54

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Index .................................................................................................................... 57

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