Forgive me if this has been asked - I can't see similar
We use Altiris 6.9 and I'm trying to replicate functionality on a test install of 7.1. The basics seem to be working i.e agent deployment, PXE, software task deployment.
In 6.9 I had 2 main groups of collections
- 1 "Installed Software Collections" which would be populated by a filter - in the main looking for an entry in inv_AeX_OS_Add_Remove_Programs i.e add remove programs to see where software was installed
- 2 "Deploy Software Collections" Where we put the Client PCs we want the software to install in, with the corresponding "Installed Software collection" in as an exclusion.
I would then have a configured software delivery task resource pointing at the corresponding "deploy software collection".
Just adding the PC or group of PCs to the "deploy" collection would trigger the install, following which daily the inventory would run, populating the "installed" collection, dropping it out of the "deploy" collection if install was successfull. I could easily see where software installed and if there were problem PCs if anything was left in the deploy collection.
I can create the software delivery resource, but can I replicate the behaviour with the collections? It's not totally obvious to me, Its not even clear to me if I can search similarly in 6.9 to search i.e inv_AeX_OS_Add_Remove_Programs on clients?
Many thanks for any assistance..