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Custom Inventory 7 Challenge - By Customers for Customers

What: Inventory Solution team is sponsoring the Custom Inventory 7 Challenge for you to earn points by creating custom inventory scripts for Altiris Client Management and Server Management Suites 7.0.

When: The contest will run from September 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010

Where: Symantec Connect Community

  • All entries will receive 100 points - 50 regular submission points plus 50 contest submission points.
  • The top 3 entries for each month will receive reward points as judged by the experts
    * 1st Place: 1500 points
    * 2nd Place 1000 points
    * 3rd Place 500 points
    ** Note: A minimum of 10 total entries per month are required in order to select the winners. If 10 submissions are not reached in a particular month the rewards will be awarded in the following month.
  • You can review the rewards catalog here.

How:   
1. Join this group.

2. Create your script. Before doing so, please review the following articles and documentation about Inventory Solution 7.0 Custom Inventory:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/introduct...

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/custom-in...

http://www.altiris.com/upload/inventory_user_gde.pdf

Note: Only scripts for Inventory Solution 7.x are accepted into the challenge.

3. Upload your script using the "Download" utility on the Connect site, and be sure to "tag" your script with this group (Custom Inventory Challenge).

4. Bonus points will be awarded at the end of each month.

Disclaimers
Symantec will make these Custom Inventory scripts available as is or modified at their discretion. Symantec will not perform any Quality Assurance testing on Custom Inventory scripts made available thru the Symantec Connect. It is the responsibility of the customer to provide internal qualification of said Custom Inventory scripts prior to rolling it out into a live production environment. Any scripts found to not be functional or that are duplicates of already submitted scripts will not qualify for points.

Please report any bugs or problems associated with any Custom Inventory script downloaded from the Symantec Connect. You may report problems via the Symantec Connect portal. Please note that Symantec will not provide technical or development support for any issue reported. Symantec will utilize customer feedback during its regular maintenance of Inventory Solution product.

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Rene Kolga posted a blog entry: Custom Inventory 7 Challenge – WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT 5 days 19 hours ago
I’m glad to announce the first winners of the Custom Inventory 7 Challenge (https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/groups/cus...). Winners’ accounts should be credited with Connect points within the next 24 hours:
6 days 20 hours ago Andrew Bosch commented on the Apple Warranty Information download This is very handy Doug, thanks! 
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ziggy
October 31st, 2009

Contest Update?

So this challenge is two months old now and no winners announced?  The rules specifically mention that the points would be awarded at the end of the month but no posting of a list of winners?  Any updates? Rene, Doug?

dougj created a download: NS7 Custom Inventory to Scan for Specified Files via the cim_datafile Class 3 weeks 5 days ago
The attached download queries the wmi class cim_datafile for files with certain extension. The wmi class contains all data normally found in the file header information and more! Querying this wmi class has proven to be many, many times faster than scanning a hard drive for file information.
4 weeks 4 days ago KSchroeder commented on the Custom Inventory to Collect "Autorun" items download I'm personally not doing anything with it.  Another individual on my team is taking that data ...
dougj created a download: Custom Inventory Folder Information VBScript 4 weeks 1 day ago
The following vbscript will gather folder information, including folder name, size, path & date last accessed.  The list of folders to scan can be customized. Subdirectories of folders in this list are also scanned. This list is the starting folder as subdirectories will also be scanned.
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ziggy
October 20th, 2009

Monthly winner announcement?

When will last months winner be announced and where will it be announced (here on this board)?

6 weeks 5 days ago ziggy commented on the Custom Inventory 7 CHALLENGE forum discussion When will each months winner be announced? Within a week of the following month, later?  And ...
6 weeks 6 days ago ziggy commented on the AIX Patrol Directory Custom Inventory download We needed to know information unique to BMC Patrol for reporting purposes in our ...
6 weeks 6 days ago ziggy commented on the AIX MQ Custom Inventory download We needed to know information unique to MQ Series for reporting purposes in our environment.
6 weeks 6 days ago Rene Kolga commented on the HP-UX Aires and Pthread Custom Inventory download This is a very helpful one! Rene
6 weeks 6 days ago Rene Kolga commented on the This AIX Oracle Audit Custom Inventory download Excellent custom inventory! Thank you! Rene
6 weeks 6 days ago ziggy commented on the AIX Processor Information Custom Inventory download That is reflective of the types of servers we have in our environment and our reporting for our CMDB.
6 weeks 6 days ago Rene Kolga commented on the Oracle TNSNAMES Inventory download Thank you for being the first one to submit the custom inventory 7.0 script! Rene
ziggy created a download: HP-UX Processor Information Custom Inventory 7 weeks 21 hours ago
This custom inventory runs on our HP-UX 11.23 and 11.31 servers to determine active processors and cores per processor using icapstatus, vparstatus, machineinfo.
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