Symantec Management Platform Resource Collection Synchronization

Owned by Mike Murphy
Last updated: Apr 23, 2015

Arellia can integrate with 7.1 and 7.5 Symantec Management Platforms and pull in existing resource filters to be used for Arellia Policy targets.

Steps:

  1. Navigate to Configuration > Foreign Software Systems > User Credentials 
  2. Select the  Default User Credential and verify that those user credentials that have access to the Symantec Management Platform Server
  3. Navigate to Foreign Software Systems > Foreign Software System Types > Symantec Management Platform 
  4. Select New > Symantec Management Platform instance 
  5. Name the Symantec Management Platform and provide the URL of the Altiris console and click OK 
  6. Navigate to Tasks > Server Tasks > Foreign Systems 
  7. Right-click Foreign Systems and select New > Tasks > SMP Synchronise Computers Task 
  8. Select Run and set the SMP Instance ID to the SMP Instance created in step 5
  9. After the task completes, navigate to Resources > Resource Filters (blue navigation bar in the bottom left) 
  10. Right-click Symantec Management Platform folder and select New > SMP Collection 
  11. Change the SMP instance in the New SMP Collection resource filter to use the recently created SMP Instance
  12. Then use the Foreign Collection parameter to choose an existing filter from the remote SMP server.
  13. After saving the new resource collection filter, right-click the new collection and select Synchronise Collection 
  14. After the new SMP Collection filter has been saved, it can be used for targeting Arellia Policies to the same computers defined on the Symantec Management Platform.