Installing the File Inventory Agent

The File Inventory Agent is software that you install on your managed computers, allowing the Application Control Solution to obtain a list of files discovered on the computers. The list of files is sent to the Notification Server through an inventory Notification Server Event. You must have the File Inventory Agent installed on your managed computer to load Application Control policies on the Application Control Agent.

Install the agent from the File Inventory Agent Install page. This page contains a generic policy that can also be used for File Inventory Agent rollout and uninstallation.

To install the File Inventory Agent

1. In the Altiris Console, click the Configuration tab.
2. In the left pane, select Configuration > Software Management > File
   Inventory > Windows > File Inventory Agent Rollout.
3. Click File Inventory Agent Install.
4. In the right pane, select Enable.
5. To enable the File Inventory Agent to send status events to the Notification Server, select Enable Verbose Reporting of Status Events.
6. Select the check box to enable sending package status events to the Notification
   Server.
7. To specify a collection to which the policy applies, click the Applies to Collection
   link to open the Collection Selector. Note – You must select at least one collection before the policy can be applied.
8. (Optional) Disable the Downloading via Multicast option.
9. Under Scheduling Options, select from:
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   • Manual - Run the policy manually and not according to a schedule. You can choose one or both of the following:
     • Notify the user when this task is available - Select this to notify the user when this policy becomes available to run. The user can then control when to run the policy.
     • Warn the user before running this task - Select this to warn the user before a policy is run. The user can then choose to cancel the task, run the task immediately, or be reminded later. #*
   • Schedule - Run the policy according to a schedule. You can schedule the policy to run as soon as possible and set up a schedule for it to be run. You can choose one or more of the following:
     • Run once ASAP - Select this to run the policy as soon as the package has been downloaded to the managed computer and the run conditions have been met.
       This option creates a mandatory policy that does not display a dialog on the managed computer before running.
     • Schedule - Select this to run the policy on a schedule. Click No schedule has been defined to open the Schedule Editor. Select one of the following:
       • Only run at scheduled time - This option tells the File Inventory Agent to run the policy only at the scheduled time. It will not attempt to queue and run the task after the scheduled time has past.
       • Run as soon as possible after the scheduled time - This option tells the File Inventory Agent that if it can't run the task at the scheduled time, that it should continue to attempt to run it at a later time until it succeeds.
     • User can run - Select this to let the user run the policy immediately when it becomes available.
     • Notify user when the task is available - Select this to notify the user when this policy becomes available to run. The user can then control when to run the policy.
     • Warn before running - Select this to warn the user before a policy runs. The user can then choose to cancel the task, run the task immediately, or defer the task.
   • Click Apply.