How to build an Inventory Report in Ghost that collects information about running processes on your Ghost Client computers
| Article:TECH147228 | | | Created: 2010-12-30 | | | Updated: 2010-12-30 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH147228 |
Problem
You want to know if you can run a Ghost Console task that will collect information about running processes on your Ghost Client Computers.
Solution
First, ensure that the “Process” inventory view is set to collect data. In a default installation of Ghost, it is NOT set to collect data.
- Open the Ghost Console.
- Click Tools > Options
- Click the Inventory Tab
- Make sure that the box next to “Show Collected Data Sets in Inventory” is checked
- Click Apply
- Click OK
Second, locate the "Process" inventory view and enable data collection for it:
- Along the left side of the Ghost Console, expand Inventory > Collected Data > Operating System
- Double-click on “Process” on the right-hand side of the Console view
- Make sure that the box next to “Do not collect data for this class” IS NOT CHECKED.
- Click OK
Third, add the "Process" inventory view to your desired clients through the Client Properties:
- If you want to add the Process Inventory view to one or a few of your client computers, proceed with these steps:
- Double-click on the client(s) you want to collect "Process" information for
- Click the Inventory tab
- Click Set Views...
- Scroll down the list and select “Process”
- Click the Add >> button
- Click OK
- If you want to add the Process Inventory view to all of your client computers, proceed with these steps:
- Click Tools > Inventory
- Click Modify
- Under "Available Views" scroll down until you find "Process" and select it
- Click Add >>
- Click OK
- Click Apply
- Click OK
Fourth, run a Refresh Inventory task on the client computer so that it gathers new inventory information for the new inventory view you just added:
- Click File > New > Task
- Check the task step for "Refresh Inventory"
- Under "Target Machine Group/Machine", click the Browse button
- Browse to the group of client computers you want to run the task on - or browse to the single client computer you want to run the task on
- Click OK
- Click Execute
- This task can run as a "casual task" so if you see a prompt that the task is not saved, just click OK
Fifth, manually view the Process information that has been collected:
- Double-click on one of your client computer targeted with the Refresh Inventory task
- Click the Inventory tab
- Under Inventory Views, select "Process"
- Use the scroll bars to scroll through all of the running tasks inventoried from that client computer
Sixth, generate a report that can be exported into TXT or CSV format:
- Click File > New > Inventory Report
- Provide a Report Name like "Running Client Processes"
- Click Browse
- Browse to the single client computer or the group of client computers you want included in the report
- Click OK
- Check the box next to "Use View"
- Click Browse
- Expand View > Operating System > Process
- Click OK
- Click OK
- Along the left side of the Ghost Console, expand Inventory > Report
- Locate the report you just created on the right-hand side of the Ghost Console (it will be titled with the Report Name set in step 2 above)
- Right-click on the report and select the option to Run Report...
- Click the Export... button to find options to export the report data to a CSV or TXT file
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