Configuring the Schedule for the Software Catalog Data Provider Task
Software Catalog Data Provider
TaskThis task gathers information about known applications that are available in
Software Catalog Data Provider
(SCDP).If you want to use SCDP for detecting the software in your environment, you need to manually schedule this task with the option
Gather
selected.If
Software Catalog Data Provider
data file is updated, you need to start this task manually with the option Gather
selected to update the list of known components in CMDB.If the
Software Catalog Data Provider Inventory
task provides the data that matches the known applications that are available in SCDP, the Software Catalog Data Provider
task does the following:- Runs automatically for the matched applications with theImport Dataoption selected.
- Creates software components with the minimum metadata (company (vendor) name, software name, version, and language).
- To configure the schedule for theSoftware Catalog Data Providertask
- In theSymantec Management Console, on theSettingsmenu, clickAll Settings.
- In the left pane, underSettings, clickSoftware > Data Provider > Providers > Software Catalog Data Provider
- In the right pane, underTask Status, clickNew Schedule.
- In theNew Scheduledialog box, underSchedule, configure the schedule for the task.
- UnderActions, select one of the following options:
- To update the list of known components in the CMDB, clickGather.Select this option after SCDP is installed if you want to use SCDP for detecting the software in your environment.
- To manually create software components and import them into the Software Catalog, clickImport DataorImport Data and Package.Symantec does not recommend creating a schedule for importing data from SCDP. With a scheduled import, every software resource in SCDP is imported. It results in a database with an excessive number of software components that are difficult to manage.
- ClickSchedule.