Understand Your Environment
This article is not intended to replace any professional consulting and these steps should NOT be taken without first testing them in a development environment. Always backup your database FIRST. The following are general steps and guidelines that you can use in order to understand special changes that need to be made when considering the use of Asset Management Suite in a large environment with hierarchy.
Now it is important to understand what your current environment looks like. Use the following scenarios to understand the steps you should take in order to configure AMS for a large environment with hierarchy. Again, these are general guidelines, and these suggestions may not fit every environment. However, in any case the following are always true.
NEVER INSTALL AMS ON CHILD SERVERS. PARENT LEVEL ONLY
ALWAYS USE HIERARCHY. INVENTORY FORWARDING WILL NOT WORK ALONE
"I haven't installed any Symantec Products yet, and I'm still in design"
Install AMS on the server that will be the "Parent" server in your environment ONLY. Configure the servers a hierarchy, using the configuration in section "C"
"I currently have servers in a hierarchy with CMS on each server"
Install AMS on the server that will be the "Parent" server in your environment ONLY. Configure the servers a hierarchy, using the configuration in section "C"
"I have 2+ servers in my environment in hierarchy and they all have AMS installed"
1. Ensure that Replication Activity is stopped section B
2. Break Hierarchy
3. Remove AMS from the Child Servers OR rebuild boxes with AMS section A
4. Bring the servers back into Hierarchy and configure the rules listed here, as well as your additional rules section C
A) Remove Asset Management Suite if Installed on Child NS
If AMS has already been installed on a server that will function as a "Child Node", best practice would be to rebuild the box in order to ensure no AMS SQL tables are still in the CMDB. However, if AMS has already been installed, the product can be uninstalled and the tables in the database ignored. Follow the steps here to be sure that the product is removed.
1. Open the Symantec Installation Manager by using the Right Click – Run as Admin
2. Find the ‘Asset Management Suite’ in the list of Installed Products
3. Click ‘Uninstall’
4. Confirm that only the following Products are listed:
a. Barcode Solution
b. Asset Management Solution
c. Asset Management Suite
5. Complete the prompts to finish the uninstall
B) Manually Ensure that Replication has Stopped when Breaking Hierarchy
Only break hierarchy if you need to remove AMS from a child server, otherwise skip this step.
Run the following SQL query from SQL Management Studio to make sure that all possible replication jobs have been stopped before breaking hierarchy.
select * from replicaitonjob where state = 3
C) Replication Configuration for Asset Management Suite
· Software Resource Summary Relocation
· Computer Replication
· Software Component Resources for installed software component
· Metering Summary Data Classes
· Metered Files Properties Data Class data
· Inventory Data Classes data – Software Data Classes
· Inventory Data Classes data – Hardware Data Classes
· Inventory Data Classes data – User Data Classes
· Inventory Data Classes data – OS Data Classes