I think you are asking about the Deployment Console. When you install deployment solution you will have a Deployment console which you can use to push SVS layers to computer with the Aclient or Dagent installed on them or install other software. The console is a very powerful tool once you learn how to use it.

Thanks. Yes I am talking about the deployment console - which has a user interface. My question is: is there an API (C, Java, or even from the command line) whereby I can execute deployment jobs on the console without actually opening the UI?

DS has a few built-in command line based utilities that you can make use of.

axExport.exe — Exports jobs from Deployment Server

axImport.exe — Imports jobs in to Deployment Server

axEvent.exe — Creates jobs in Deployment Server

axSched.exe — Schedules jobs in Deployment Server

axComp.exe — Imports computers to the Deployment Server from a DOS mode

These utilities can be found in the root of the eXpress share on the DS server.

The Altiris Software Developer Kit has a lot of APIs for the different Altiris product set. There are different parts of the Developer Kit that plugin to Deployment Server that allow you to write custom code/custom scripts to manage/use the Deployment Server and various jobs.

Jonathan