Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

Good morning,

I am a complete newbie who has an NS with PatchManagement, Inventory for Windows and Inventory for Servers installed.

I need to create collections based on the values in the registry of Windows servers.

For example:
I want a collection of servers that should be patched at 2300 on a Saturday. I have a reg key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\OurStuff\PatchManagement\Schedule with a value of Saturday 2300

Can anyone provide a step by step "how to" create this collection? I have already rtfm and had a bit of a search on this forum and can't really piece it together! Any help is greatly appreciated.

Eric,
1st off you need to create a custom inventory on the registry key. Some samples are here:https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=4237&p=1
Once you have created those, and the data is gathered, it will be available in the database.

HTH

Jim

Many thanks Jim. Will take a look over the weekend.
Rgds

ive been over all the instructions but still cant get what im after.

Basically trying to get cust inventory so I can create a collection of PC's which have a certain key. Do not care about value within the key, just the existence of the key itself.
After copying the sample xml from the article above I think I need something like this - all I want is whether the v2.0 key exists or not on that PC. Im not sure what to do with with c0 part. If i put the resulting nsi into the NSI viewer it has no info in it. Can anyone help ?
thanks

 </s:Schema>
    <rs:data>
<%set RegPath="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MyCompany\Software\ v2.0"%>
<%foreach regvalue="val1" path="%RegPath%"%>
      <z:row
 c0="<%writexml "key:val1.name"%>"   
 c1="<%writexml "key:val1.type"%>"   
 c2="<%writexml "key:val1.value"%>"   
      />
<%next%> 

 

is to return the value of a given key. If you want to check for existence of key, you'll have to use a similar method (VBScript) listed here: KB24996