Custom Inventory Challenge

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Custom Inventory 7 Challenge - By Customers for Customers

What: Inventory Solution team is sponsoring the Custom Inventory 7 Challenge for you to earn points by creating custom inventory scripts for Altiris Client Management and Server Management Suites 7.0.

When: The contest will run from September 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010

Where: Symantec Connect Community

All entries will receive 100 points - 50 regular submission points plus 50 contest submission points.
The top 3 entries for each month will receive reward points as judged by the experts
* 1st Place: 1500 points
* 2nd Place 1000 points
* 3rd Place 500 points
** Note: A minimum of 10 total entries per month are required in order to select the winners. If 10 submissions are not reached in a particular month the rewards will be awarded in the following month.

You can review the rewards catalog here.

How:
1. Join this group.

2. Create your script. Before doing so, please review the following articles and documentation about Inventory Solution 7.0 Custom Inventory:

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/introduct...

http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/custom-in...

http://www.altiris.com/upload/inventory_user_gde.pdf

Note: Only scripts for Inventory Solution 7.x are accepted into the challenge.

3. Upload your script using the "Download" utility on the Connect site, and be sure to "tag" your script with this group (Custom Inventory Challenge).

4. Bonus points will be awarded at the end of each month.

Disclaimers
Symantec will make these Custom Inventory scripts available as is or modified at their discretion. Symantec will not perform any Quality Assurance testing on Custom Inventory scripts made available thru the Symantec Connect. It is the responsibility of the customer to provide internal qualification of said Custom Inventory scripts prior to rolling it out into a live production environment. Any scripts found to not be functional or that are duplicates of already submitted scripts will not qualify for points.

Please report any bugs or problems associated with any Custom Inventory script downloaded from the Symantec Connect. You may report problems via the Symantec Connect portal. Please note that Symantec will not provide technical or development support for any issue reported. Symantec will utilize customer feedback during its regular maintenance of Inventory Solution product.

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Altiris Client Management Suite, Altiris Server Management Suite

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download comment 14 Jan 2012

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download comment 01 Feb 2012

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New article 06 Dec 2011

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New discussion 26 May 2011

JeffDG posted: Missing Custom Inventory Sample

I downloaded the v6 Custom Inventory samples, and I found one that seems to output the exact information I need, but they provided the output, not the input file for AexCustInv Reg_Recurse_PathNameTypeValue.xml Anyone have the script used for this one, seems the only sample wit

download comment 19 May 2011

powellbc commented on: Apple Warranty Information

Unfortunately, it appears that this script does not work any longer. I think Apple requires some sort of authentication for this to work. :(

idea comment 20 Apr 2011

Mithun Sanghavi commented on: An Alert or Notification or Logs for websites visited.

Hello, Thanks Paul. That's indeed needed with Symantec Security Product. Hope to see that coming soon :)

discussion comment 28 Apr 2011

TGiles commented on: Custom Inventory - Manual Testing

Unfortunately for the custom inventory tasks there isn't a way to randomize the schedule or perform delta updates.

discussion comment 16 Feb 2011

JP330ci commented on: Custom Inventory 7 Powershell Example

I'd love to see this also... I've not seen even the slightest mention of it so far..