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ALT-ASSET-MGT7 --- Altiris Asset Management Suite 7.0 Administration

Overview

The Altiris Asset Management Suite 7.0 Administration course is designed for the asset management professional tasked with installing

Objectives

The Altiris Asset Management Suite 7.0 Administration course is designed for the asset management professional tasked with installing, configuring, administering, and using Asset Management Suite 7.0 to manage corporate assets in an ITIL-focused environment.

PreRequisites

This course is for asset management administrators and any other asset management personnel who are involved in installing, configuring, managing, and administering Altiris Asset Management Suite 7.0.

Who Can Benefit

This course is for asset management administrators and any other asset management personnel who are involved in installing, configuring, managing, and administering Altiris Asset Management Suite 7.0.

Duration

5 Days

Course Content

Altiris Asset Management Suite 7.0 Administration Content Details

 
 
Product Overview
  • 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
Installing Asset Management Suite 7
  • System requirements
  • Demonstration: Installing Asset Management Suite 7
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
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
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
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
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
 
Creating Assets
  • 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
Maintaining Assets
  • 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
Working with Contracts
  • 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
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
Working with Procurement
  • 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
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
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
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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