About Gathering Inventory Using Stand-Alone Packages
This type of inventory is for Windows computers only.
A stand-alone inventory package is an executable file that you create from the Symantec Management Console. You run the package on target computers and gather the inventory data on that computer. This method lets you gather inventory on the target computers that are not managed through Symantec Management Agent.
Standalone inventory package does not support collecting inventory data that can only be collected with provided database credentials. If you define database credentials in the standalone package, they cannot be decrypted when the package is executed, and only limited scope of data for the database is collected
- Older or same version of Symantec Management Agent is installed on a computer.
- Symantec Management Agent is installed on a client computer but not connected to the Notification Server computer.
- Symantec Management Agent is installed on a client computer, but is broken or not functioning.
- Symantec Management Agent is installed on a client computer, but is disabled.
- Inventory Plug-in is installed on the client computer from which you want to gather stand-alone inventory.
Stand-alone inventory packages can only run on Windows computers that do not have Inventory Plug-in installed. To gather inventory on the computers that run on other platforms, you must use different methods.
If you use stand-alone packages, you must be able to report the inventory data back to the Notification Server computer. You can use different options of reporting data depending on the configuration of your network. You can create multiple packages with different options according to your needs.
After migration, the stand-alone packages that you created before the migration continue using old files and settings. For example, if a standalone package was configured to post NSE files directly to Notification Server, after migration, when the host name of Notification Server changes, the package continues posting NSE files to old Notification Server, not to the new one. For the standalone packages to function correctly, you need to recreate them after migration.
To run a stand-alone package and gather the inventory correctly, the logged on user must have administrator rights.