Discovery and Inventory

Public Group | Founded: 05 Aug 2009 | Serving 213 members

This group is designed to help system administrators utilize the Network Discovery, Inventory, Application Metering, Barcode and Asset Management capabilities in ITMS.

A team of Symantec experts will closely monitor this group and highlight helpful resources so that they are easier to find. Members of this group can use these experts as a sounding board for their questions and ideas. Users are strongly encouraged to share product extensions, such as custom inventory scripts.

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discussion comment 08 Oct 2009

ziggy commented on: Custom Inventory 7 CHALLENGE

When will each months winner be announced? Within a week of the following month, later? And where will the winner's list be posted? Thanks.

download comment 26 Jan 2010

KSchroeder commented on: Script and NS6 Custom Inventory to Track PC Startup Times

it actually leverages the SysInternals/Microsoft 'Autoruns' tool which pulls auto-launching items from about 7 different places in the registry and the Startup folder! :)

download comment 19 Jan 2010

KSchroeder commented on: Custom Inventory to Collect "Autorun" items

Sure Doug. I'll post it, but it will probably have limited utility since one of the components it checks for is the time that MS Office Communicator loaded. We used this as a proxy for when the user's desktop was ...

article comment 18 Jan 2010

dougj commented on: Using Custom Inventory for User Selectable Maintenance Windows

Thank you for the thorough description and novel use of custom inventory. Great job!

New blog entry 18 Nov 2009

Rene Kolga posted: Custom Inventory 7 Challenge – WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

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: • ziggy – 1500 points (for the largest number of scripts and especially fo

New download 29 Oct 2009

dougj posted: NS7 Custom Inventory to Scan for Specified Files via the cim_datafile Class

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.

download comment 06 Oct 2009

ziggy commented on: AIX Patrol Directory Custom Inventory

We needed to know information unique to BMC Patrol for reporting purposes in our environment. We combine this information with other data for licensing reports.

download comment 06 Oct 2009

Rene Kolga commented on: HP-UX Aires and Pthread Custom Inventory

This is a very helpful one! Rene

download comment 06 Oct 2009

Rene Kolga commented on: This AIX Oracle Audit Custom Inventory

Excellent custom inventory! Thank you! Rene

download comment 06 Oct 2009

ziggy commented on: AIX Processor Information Custom Inventory

That is reflective of the types of servers we have in our environment and our reporting for our CMDB.