Symantec Management Platform (Notification Server)

Replacement cycle underway in our educational institution. 8,000 endpoints. 5,000 with dreaded deepfreeze. My question pertains to that subgroup.

New PC arrives, imaged, SMA installed and functioning. PC then "frozen".

We can push an exe to configure bios (PW, WOL settings) no problems.

However, when it comes to doing so by policy how would you check for compliance so that it doesn't run over and over again? Please keep in mind, PC's have Faronics' Deepfreeze product installed and are "Frozen".

Thank you!

We use a Custom Inventory in Altiris to perform a WMI query and save the BIOS setting back to Altiris. You can then create a filter based on this to exclude PCs from the policy.