If you want to use DS 6.9 to tell the Symantec Management Agent to update config you can run the following in a Run Script task:
'vbscript to force the Altiris Agent to update config and check for new policies
' Cause the 6.0 agent to request config, we now have the ability to override network blockouts
' If the variable <ignoreBlockouts> is set to 1 config is requested during a total blockout
' If it is set to 0 the config request will be performed once the total blockout ends
dim client
set client = wscript.createobject ( "Altiris.AeXNSClient" )
ignoreBlockouts = 1
client.UpdatePolicies ignoreBlockouts
To use DS 6.9 to tell the Symantec Management Agent to Send Basic Inventory you can run the following in a Run Script task:
'vbscript (only if run from Deployment Server as an embedded Windows script)
' Cause the 6.0 agent to send basic inv
' We now have the ability to ignore blockouts and to send the basic inv only if something has changed
' The <ignoreBlockouts> variable works the same way as for config requests
' The <sendIfUnchanged> variable controls whether basic inv is sent even when it has not changed
' If <sendIfUnchanged> is 1 basic inv will be sent whether it has changed or not
' If it is 0 basic inv will be sent only if it has changed since the last time it was sent
dim client
set client = wscript.createobject ( "Altiris.AeXNSClient" )
ignoreBlockouts = 1
sendIfUnchanged = 1
client.SendBasicInventory sendIfUnchanged, ignoreBlockouts
They can be found on a DS under Samples > Misc jobs > Notification Server. Although labelled as NS 6.0 Jobs I think they work for NS 7.n as well.