- Asset Management Suite and the Altiris product family
- Purpose of Asset Management Suite
- Components of Asset Management Suite
- Supporting components
- The Asset Management Suite environment
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| Installing Asset Management Suite 7 |
- System requirements
- Demonstration: Installing Asset Management Suite 7
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| The Altiris Resource Model |
- Resources
- How resources are stored in the CMDB
- Resource associations
- Configuration items
- Assets
- Data classes
- Hands-On Labs: Displaying resource attributes (data classes) and associations
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| CMDB Solution and Data Connector |
- CMDB rules
- Connector data sources
- Connector import/export rules
- Creating custom resource types, resource associations, and data classes
- CMDB settings
- Performing other tasks
- Hands-On Labs: Creating a data source and a Connector rule, creating a CMDB rule
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| Migrating, Discovering, and Importing Assets |
- Migrating assets from Service and Asset Management Suite 6.5 to Asset Management Suite 7.0
- Where to go for more migration information
- Discovering computer resources
- Discovering network resources
- Importing assets from Active Directory
- Demonstration: Exporting assets from Service and Asset Management Suite 6.5 to Asset Management Suite 7.0 using the migration wizard
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| Security and Organizational Views and Groups |
- Security roles
- Organizational Views and Groups
- Hands-On Labs: Creating a new security role, assigning asset privileges and permissions
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| Setting Up the Organizational Structure |
- Creating locations
- Creating cost centers
- Creating departments
- Auto-populated organization views and groups
- Configuring settings
- Performing housekeeping tasks
- Running organizational types reports
- Hands-On Labs: Creating locations, creating cost centers, creating departments
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- Creating computer assets
- Creating other assets
- Creating and maintaining edit views
- Configuring asset settings
- Running asset reports
- Hands-On Labs: Creating a computer asset, setting default values for new computer assets, creating an Edit view, running asset reports
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- Configuring asset ownership settings
- Performing housekeeping tasks
- Performing other asset maintenance tasks
- Hands-On Labs: Running tasks and configuring settings for asset maintenance, running asset maintenance reports
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- Contract management challenges
- Understanding contracts
- Preparing to create contract resources
- Creating contract resources
- Configuring contract global settings
- Running automation policy tasks
- Running contract reports
- Hands-On Labs: Creating a new contract, running contract reports
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| Working with Software Licensing |
- The software license model
- Creating software products from Inventory
- Importing software products from software catalog data providers
- Creating software products, licenses, and software purchases
- Managing software licensing
- Performing housekeeping tasks
- Running software licensing reports
- Hands-On Labs: Importing software products from software catalog data providers, creating software licenses, creating software purchases, running software licensing reports
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- Creating companies
- Creating stockrooms
- Managing procurement catalogs
- Creating purchase requests
- Creating purchase orders
- Creating receiving slips
- Running procurement reports
- Hands-On Labs: Creating catalog items, creating purchase requests and purchase orders, creating stockrooms, running procurement reports
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| Working with Barcode Solution |
- Installing Barcode Manager
- Using Barcode Solution
- Configuring Barcode Solution settings
- Reviewing Barcode Solution license usage
- Running Barcode Solution reports
- Hands-On Labs: Using a barcode emulator to perform upload, download, and asset editing processes
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| Asset Management Workflows |
- Workflow server system requirements
- Setting up the Workflow server
- Installing the asset management workflows
- The ownership validation workflow
- The software purchase request workflow
- The hardware purchase request workflow
- Hands-On Labs: Running the asset management workflows in Process Manager
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| Writing Custom Asset Reports |
- Introduction to Report Builder
- Using fields and data class attributes
- Creating Joins
- Exploring asset data classes
- Hands-On Labs: Creating a simple asset report, joining data classes
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