Working with WMIC to Gather Inventory Data
Microsoft’s wmic is a great little utility for quickly querying WMI classes. It is a very practicial tool for validiting Inventory Solution data. Following are a few insights and a batch file.
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The Symantec NS/SMP Agent for Unix and Linux v7.x requires full root privileges to run correctly. Modifying or reducing the root user privileges is unsupported and may cause the agent to fail, hang or stall during various processes including:
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The Unix, Linux and Mac (ULM) agent includes a utility named 'aex-helper'. Among the many options is a 'query resource' option. This command line parameter will return the following information (which is much simpler than setting a ...
Following is a list of the Unix, Linux and Macintosh (ULM) installation files for the agent and solutions, the associated installation command provided by Symantec and the default location on the NS/SMP server. This list is based on the SMP 7.0 platform. ...
Apple has provided a large number of command line utilities that facilitate the management of Mac client computers. Many of these scripts have been used to create 'run script' tasks in the Symantec Management Platform (SMP)console for use by ...
On Unix and Linux clients running the 7.x agent, there appears to be occasional corruption of cached data. This results in RPM data not being added to the NSE file being sent to the SMP.
Note that RPM data is gathered by the core Software Management ...
WMI Date format
Dates in WMI are rather unique. They are not what you would typically expect. For example, the following wmic query returns the date in the format shown here:
>wmic path win32_operatingsystem get installdate
InstallDate ...
The Symantec Management Platform and the agent on the client communicate in both directions. So, incoming connections are required for proper functioning. When installing the Symantec Agent for Macintosh on a client computer that has the firewall ...
Install Actions
The following table describes the Install Actions, settings and parameters that can be entered when configuring packages.
Install Action
Description/Settings/Parameters
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Product Description
Symantec Management Platform (SMP) provides a set of services that IT-related solutions can leverage. Solutions plug into the platform and take advantage of the platform services, such as security, reporting, ...