Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

Greetings,

I am trying to build collections and cannot seem to find the correct method. I tried initially creating a collection and choosing a resource type and filter in the query area. After exhausting myself and hopefully all options, I could not locate the AD OU as a selection.

I went nosing around in reports and found a report that mentions OU. I tried some things with the SQL from that report in my collection, but never really go that right. I think the field is named Inv_OU_Membership?

I have to believe that I am not the first person who wanted to build collections based on two prerequisites: AD OU and another field. In my case, I would like all computers of a certain model in my collection, say Dell Optiplex GX270, but only the 270s from the 'workstations/staff' OU. Ultimately I am deploying BIOS upgrades and updates and don't want to affect machines from OUs that I don't support - am I the first here?

In my own defense, everything we know here we taught each other in a cave as we bought into Altiris without training funds in mind - poor broke community college...

Thank you to anyone who in this eleventh hour before the holidays has any enlightenment to share.

Regards,

Well by default the Active Directory Import rules create prepopulated collections based on your OU structure.

As far as getting the model information for your systems you will need to use the Inv_AeX_HW_Serial_Number.

select sn._ResourceGuid AS 'Guid' from Inv_AeX_HW_Serial_Number sn
join Inv_OU_Membership ou on ou._ResourceGuid = sn._ResourceGuid
where sn.[Computer Model] like '%Optiplex GX270%'
and ou.[Distinguished Name] like '%workstations/staff%'

HTH

Bruce,
Do you have all Dells? If so, have you installed the Dell Client Manager? Following up on Tylor's post, have you used the AD import tool to import your AD structure?

Jim

Thank you both for your quick reply. All of the machines I am concerned about are Dells and the collection I am trying to build in the Dell Client Manager. I'll check with the systems folks to see about the AD import. If I see the OU in the system properties in the Deployment Server Console does that mean yes?

Here is one curious bit, the only machines that populate any of the collections in that Dell Client screen in the Altiiris NS web-console come from a small group that we somehow installed. Does the Dell Client for Altiris need to be already installed for a machine to show up there? Am I simply missing something about deploying the Dell Client to my machines?

The machines would show up in the default directory collections if the AD import was installed, whether or not the Altiris Agent and Dell Client were installed.

In order to manage the systems, you would need to install the Altiris Agent and the Dell Client Manager agent.

We seem to be working this out, thank you all for the guidance. Happy Holidays!

Bruce,
Good to hear. Let us know if you need more help.

Jim