Installing the Inventory and Application Metering Plug-ins
To gather inventory data on managed computers, you must install the Inventory Plug-in on target computers. To meter applications on managed computers, you must install the Application Metering Plug-in on target computers. These plug-ins work with the Symantec Management Agent to perform tasks on the target computers and communicate with Notification Server.
You use the following Inventory Solution plug-ins:
If you have Inventory Pack for Servers, you can also use the Inventory Pack for Servers Plug-in.
To install a plug-in, you configure the policy that installs the plug-in on target computers. You select the group of computers on which the policy runs and when it runs. If you choose a group that contains a computer that already has the plug-in installed, the task is ignored on that computer. When the policy is enabled, any new computer that is a member of the target group automatically has the plug-in installed on it.
By default, no plug-in installation policies are enabled. If you install Inventory Solution for the first time, you must manually enable the policies to install the Inventory and Application Metering Plug-ins.
Before performing this task, you must install the Symantec Management Agent on target computers.
This task is a step in the process for preparing managed computers for inventory and metering.
See Preparing managed computers for inventory and metering.
To install the Inventory or Application Metering Plug-ins
In the Symantec Management Console, on the Actions menu, click .
In the left pane, expand , and then click the policy for the plug-in that you want to install.
On the plug-in install page, turn on the policy.
At the upper right of the page, click the colored circle, and then click .
Click to select the computers on which you want to install the plug-in.
For more information, see the topics about specifying the targets of a policy and specifying filtering rules in the Symantec Management Platform User Guide.
Schedule the policy to run on target computers.
For more information, see the topic about adding a schedule to a policy, task, or job in the Symantec Management Platform User Guide.
Click .
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