Symantec ALTIRIS IT MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 MR1 - S V1.0, New Features Manual

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Hotfix1, you must upgrade the Symantec Management Agent on managed
computers.
See Upgrading the Symantec Management Agent on managed computers
To upgrade the Inventory plug-in on managed computers, do the following
1. In the Symantec Management Console, on the Settings menu, click All
Settings .
2. In the left pane, click Agents/Plug-ins > Discovery and Inventory > Windows .
3. Click the Inventory Plug-in for Windows Upgrade policy
4. On the plug-in upgrade page, turn on the policy:
At the upper right of the page, click the colored circle, and then click
On .
5. Click Save changes .
6. Starting with Step 2, repeat for the UNIX/Linux/Mac Inventory plug-in.
The schedule for ‘Weekly Software Catalog Inventory’ that runs by default every
Wednesday at 2:40 A.M. on the Software Catalog Data Provider Inventory page
does no longer run by default as its entry is removed from the Windows Task
Scheduler. To run the Software Catalog Data Provider Inventory task, you must
create a new schedule. 1712682
The following are the issues that were fixed in the MR1 of Inventory Solution 7.0 SP2.
Table 1-7 Fixed issues in Inventory Solution
Issue Internal ID
The count of the not reporting computers on the How current is my computer
Inventory? Web part is different from the count on the drill-down .
2013677
Some filter parameters that are present on the Add or Remove Programs Search
report page are not used in the report SQL query.
1929752
The restricted user does not have read permissions in security scoping
environment. 1938978
Audit Software Search report times out on a larger database.
In the Computer Name field a new drop-down has been introduced that lets you
narrow down your search. The option "--Any--" is no longer defaulted. However,
if you select the option "--Any--" in the
Computer Name drop-down list and
"%.exe" as a file name, then the possibility of timing out still exists.
1961602
Devices Inventoried By Type Web part only displays the devices that were
discovered within last 30 days.
1972344
The inventory policy that is specified to scan one single file, does not report
information about this file, although it exists on the computer. 1972759
When the Inventory runs, the InvProvider.dll causes the Altiris Agent to stop 1982646