Case anyone is interested.

All you have do is excluded the 64 bit or 32 bit depending what you want to capture.

You can also leave out the display version if you only want to capture a total of deployment agents.

select guid from vcomputer vc

join inv_addremoveprogram iarp on vc.guid=iarp._resourceguid

where iarp.displayname like 'Altiris Deployment Agent'

and displayversion ='1.0.0'

The Managed Custom Data Classes pages allows administrators to create or modify data classes used in custom inventory.

It is possible to create multi-rows data classes (data classes that will be able to have more than one entry per computer) however the implementation of the "Allow multiple rows from a single computer resource" button  is a little confusing.

If you navigate to the Managed Custom Data Class you will see the following (with the left hand side showing your custom classes instead of mines of course):

This looks quite normal (given none of the existing custom data classes are selected) however if you switch to a custom class the check box will not be updated to show the state of the selected data class. So you cannot tell by looking at the UI whether a custom class allows multiple entires per computer or not.

To do this you have a couple of...

I had an email from a customer yesterday with a rather worrying issue: Package Servers on the environment would stop serving files at random without any errors on the Altiris Logs.

The Altiris Agent was installed using the default path but on the d:\ instead of C. Upon inspection the customer found a file named "Program" at the root of D:\. Deleting the file resolved the Package Server issues. Something similar is documented on Symwise TECH40015, however this doesn't indicate what could be the root cause, and this didn't totally apply because the KB is indicating that this problems prevents the installation of the agent.

So we had a webex session and upon inspection of the "Program" file we found that it was the help message from cacls.exe, a helper program to modify NTFS acls on Windows computers.

This file however had an extra line starting with " Files\Altiris\eXpress..." and ending with "..\%id%cacls.log" were...

I was trying to find the latest release notes (and latest version) for SMP 7.0...

And see the https://KB.ALTIRIS.COM is now out of order and replaced with http://www.symantec.com/business/support

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Hum... As any normal human, I am under the "temptation" to find any reason to reject this change, because want to retain its old habits !!!

But, honestly, without "changing", our world does not have any meaning.

So let's have a look...

Hum:

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