To recap, we are a TMS client with the Altiris agent deployed to 11,000 servers, of which about 20% are UNIX.
We offer our clients a disaster recovery (DR) option, and with that, come the option of having a hot standby server ready to be flipped into production should the need arise.
The issue we came across involves how the server reports its' hostname and domain.
Before we had the Task solution installed, we were tasked :-) with figuring out a way to get our agents to run a basic inventory and check in to see if there are tasks for it to run immediately and not have to wait till they checked in next time (which may be up to 8 hours later).
While tirelessly looking for a method to automatically uninstall Workflow Designer instances found on clients machines, I stumbled upon this little gem: