Symantec Management Platform Package Synchronization

Owned by Mike Murphy
Last updated: May 30, 2014
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Arellia can integrate with 7.1 and 7.5 Symantec Management Platforms and scan software delivery packages for applications that can be whitelisted by Arellia Application Control Solution. 

This integration requires Arellia 8.0 or greater

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. Right-click the newly created Symantec Management Platform instance and select Sync Packages 
  7. This will do an on-demand scan of the packages currently on that notification server.
  8. To setup a recurring schedule for Symantec Package Synchronization, click on the Tasks tab 
  9. Navigate to  Jobs and Tasks > Infrastructure Scheduled Activities > Symantec Management Platform > Sync Packages task
  10. Set the SMP System ID and then set the schedule for how often Arellia should scan the packages
  11. Arellia will then continually scan the packages on the SMP Server
  12. After the Package Synchronization has completed the SMP Packages can be used in Arellia Application Control Package Whitelists