Symantec ALTIRIS 7.0 SP2 - MANAGEMENT SOLUTION, Manual

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How Software Management Solution integrates with
the Software Catalog and Software Library
In Software Management Solution, Quick Delivery and Managed Software Delivery
leverage the software resource information that is in the Software Catalog and
Software Library. When you create a task or policy, you select a software resource
to deliver. Any information about the software that the task or the policy needs
is available from the software resource.
The Software Catalog and Software Library are part of the Symantec Management
Platform.
For more information, see the topics about the Software Catalog, the Software
Library, and software resources in the Symantec Management Platform Help.
Table 5-3
How features in Software Management Solution use software
resource information
Usage of software resource information Feature
The Quick Delivery wizard limits the selections that you need to make to deliver software.
You select the software resource to deliver, the command line to use, and the destinations
to target. The software resource provides any other information that is required for the
delivery. This simplified delivery method lets you entrust certain deliveries to
non-administrators such as help desk personnel.
See “About quick delivery of a single software resource” on page 131.
Quick Delivery
The software resource information is essential for the complex deliveries that Managed
Software Delivery performs.
Managed Software Delivery uses the software resource’s rules to intelligently perform
applicability and compliance checks and to remediate the software that is out of compliance.
These checks conserve bandwidth by ensuring that the software is not downloaded to
computers on which it is already installed.
The
Managed Software Delivery
wizard can use the software resource’s associations to
alert you to the following situations:
■
When the selected software depends on other software resources
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When an update to the selected software is available
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When other software supersedes the selected software
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(Windows only) When the selected software resource conflicts with another software
resource
See “About advanced software deliveries” on page 96.
Managed Software
Delivery
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How Software Management Solution integrates with the Software Catalog and Software Library