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Macintosh Hostnames with Apostrophes Are Not Reporting Correctly
July 17th, 2009 | 0 votes

Some may have noticed that any Macintosh computer name containing an apostrophe is listed incorrectly in Resource Manager.

This is actually a function of the Mac OS X operating system. It creates a hostname from the name specified in System Preferences/Sharing by removing apostrophes and changing spaces to dashes. See the following chart for more information.

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The Valid Custom Inventory Data Types
November 12th, 2008 | 0 votes

It is a misnomer to state that Custom Inventory supports certain data types. Within the aexcustinv.exe process, all data is treated as a string type.

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How Does Unix Basic Inventory Identify the 'Apache HTTP Server' Role
June 20th, 2008 | 0 votes

In order for a Linux client to be setup as a package server, it must be identified as a package server candidate. One of the criteria is that the machine have a role of 'Apache HTTP Server'.

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How to Use Custom Inventory for Windows to Gather Registry Information from Multiple Keys
May 15th, 2008 | 0 votes

It is possible to write custom inventory to gather data from more than one registry key.

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Capture Network Adapter Connection Speed with Custom Inventory
November 20th, 2007 | 0 votes

After much research, we have found that it is possible to capture the configured speed of network cards. This is found in the root\WMI namespace in the MSNdis_LinkSpeed class.

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Filtering AeXSNPlus Serial Numbers
November 8th, 2007 | 0 votes

It has been found that, on occassion, AeXSNPlus can return more than one serial number. One such case is when a laptop is plugged into a docking station and snplus captures one serial number for the laptop and a second for the docking station. It is possible for the docking station serial number to be incorrectly reported as the laptop's serial number.

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VBScript to Convert datetime Stamp to NSDate Format
September 28th, 2007 | 0 votes

Here's a sample vbscript to use in Custom Inventory for Windows to convert a datetime stamp to NSDatetime format. It doesn't have all possible error checking, but it does have the main conversion logic.

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Easily Find MSI Files in c:\windows\installer
June 15th, 2007 | 0 votes

On occasion, it is necessary to uninstall an Altiris product using the installed MSI file used by Windows. These installed MSI files are stored in the <drive>:\<WINDIR>\Installer folder on the Notification Server.

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Gathering IIS Information Using Custom Inventory
June 12th, 2007 | 0 votes

The following custom inventory will query WMI for IIS virtual directories. The custom inventory will return the virtual directory name and the physical path it points to. Other WMI classes in this name space returned the virtual directory name but this is the only one found to include the path, so it was chosen for this example.

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Parallel's tinyBios for Windows Incompatible with AeXSNPlus.exe
May 18th, 2007 | 0 votes

Parallels software allows for the creation of Windows virtual machines on a Macintosh with in Intel processor. It is very good virtualization software. However, there is one caveat in regard to Altiris Inventory Solution for Windows.

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