Altiris Software Dev Kit (ASDK)

Are there any APIs I can add to our software to make it Altiris-compatible?

I've never used Altiris, but several of our customers use it, so if there's anything we can add to our software to have Altiris "find" it and be able to deploy new software etc. without actually having to install Altiris on the computers we provide?

Or if we need to install Altiris, how to have the local Altiris be able to talk to our software so it can deploy new software, etc. ?

 

Is any of this even possible?

There is an Altiris Software Development Kit (ASDK) that lets you programmatically perform console functions. there's not much documentation on it online, there is quite a comprehensive help file installed with it - you can download trialware from the main Symantec website quite easily and the ASDK is installed with the base Symantec Management Platform I believe. Here's a link to the release notes for a recent version, should give you some idea of what it can do: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH228580 Click "Attachments"

Thanks for the reply.

This seems like it would allow our application to talk to Altiris. What about the reverse? Can I have Altiris talk to our application?

Yes, you can use Tasks to run scripts on either the main Notification Server or one of the Task Servers, these scripts can do anything your application allows. Or you can use the Data Connector to export resources to a CSV file, OLEDB data source (SQL Server, MSAccess mdb/accdb, MS Excel xls/xlsx, Oracel database or directly entered connection string), XML file or Custom file with customised header, repeating section and footer.

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