Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY 7.0 SP2 - FOR NETWORK DEVICES... User manual

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

Chapter 1 Introducing Inventory for Network Devices ..................... 9

About Inventory for Network Devices ................................................ 9

Components of Inventory for Network Devices .................................. 10

Where to get more information ....................................................... 11

Chapter 2 Using the Agentless Inventory Home page .................... 13

Agentless Inventory Home page ...................................................... 13

Chapter 3 Gathering agentless inventory ......................................... 15

About gathering agentless inventory ............................................... 15

Gathering agentless inventory ........................................................ 16

Creating agentless inventory tasks using the wizard ........................... 17

Manually creating and modifying agentless inventory tasks ................. 19

Scheduling agentless inventory tasks .............................................. 21

Chapter 4 Viewing agentless inventory status and results ........... 23

About agentless inventory status and results .................................... 23

Viewing agentless inventory reports ................................................ 23

Chapter 5 Mapping network device data .......................................... 25

About SNMP data mapping ............................................................ 25

Using SNMP data mapping tables .................................................... 26

Exporting and importing SNMP data mapping tables .......................... 28

Index .................................................................................................................... 29

Contents

Contents8

Introducing Inventory for

Network Devices

This chapter includes the following topics:

■About Inventory for Network Devices

■Components of Inventory for Network Devices

■Where to get more information

About Inventory for Network Devices

Inventory for Network Devices gathers inventory data from discovered devices

in your network. This inventory is gathered from the devices that are not managed

through the Altiris Agent. Because a management agent is not required, this

inventory is considered an agentless inventory.

Agentless inventory gathers inventory on the devices that are already discovered

and exist as resources in the Symantec Management Platform's Configuration

Management Database (CMDB). Generally, you use agentless inventory to gather

inventory on the devices that are discovered using the Network Discovery

component of the Symantec Management Platform.

This inventory is performed by running agentless inventory tasks on discovered

devices and reporting the data to the Notification Server. The discovery data is

stored in the CMDB. You configure the automated tasks that are scheduled to run

at regular intervals to keep your inventory data current.

You can gather inventory on the following types of devices:

■Cluster

■Computer

Chapter

■Computer: Virtual machine

■Infrastructure device

■IP Phone

■KVM device

■Network attached storage

■Network backup device

■Network printer

■Out-of-band management device

■Out-of-band management device: Chassis management controller

Currently, agentless inventory gathers inventory only on SNMP-enabled devices.

You can determine the type of inventory that is gathered through SNMP data

mapping tables. Agentless inventory collects data from the SNMP-enabled network

devices that are based on SNMP data mapping tables. The tables identify the data

fields you want to collect and then applies the settings to selected device types.

See “Gathering agentless inventory”on page 16.

See “About SNMP data mapping”on page 25.

Components of Inventory for Network Devices

Inventory for Network Devices runs on the Symantec Management Platform and

uses the components of the platform.

See “About Inventory for Network Devices”on page 9.

Inventory for Network Devices also includes the following components:

Table 1-1 Components of Inventory for Network Devices

DescriptionComponent

You create and schedule tasks to collect

inventory on discovered devices.

See “Gathering agentless inventory”

on page 16.

Inventory for Network Devices tasks (also

known as agentless inventory tasks)

You can use the wizard to easily create

agentless inventory tasks.

See “Creating agentless inventory tasks

using the wizard”on page 17.

Agentless inventory wizard

Introducing Inventory for Network Devices

Components of Inventory for Network Devices

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