Altiris Tab

App Portal 2017 R2

You specify Altiris Client Management Suite settings on the Deployment > Altiris subtab of the Settings view, which is opened by selecting Settings under Site Management on the Admin tab.

Settings > Deployment View / Altiris Tab

The Altiris subtab includes the following properties:

Settings > Deployment View / Altiris Tab

Property

Description

Central Site Server

Enter the machine name of the Altiris Notification Server. Make sure that ASDK is installed on this machine.

Central Site Database Server

Enter the machine name where the Altiris Notification Server database resides.

Central Site Database Name

Enter the database name of the Altiris Notification Server database.

Test

Click to test the connection settings that are entered. If the test is successful, the message [SERVER_NAME] settings are valid appears.

User / Computer relationship

Specify the user/computer relationship that App Portal needs to use by selecting one of the following options:

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Use last logon user—Use the last logon user.

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Use User Affinity—Use the primary device assigned to user.

Computer Collection Folder

Enter the name of the folder to use to create App Portal computer filters.

User Collection Folder

Enter the name of the folder to use to create App Portal user filters.

Advertisement Folder

Enter the name of the folder to use to create App Portal advertisements.

Policy Folder ID (GUID)

Enter the Policy Folder GUID that App Portal will use to search for policies to attach to a catalog item.

Policy Changed Collection Update Offset

Enter the number of minutes duration to wait after a device is added to a collection before initiating a policy update.

Use Central Site for All Deployments

This option is always selected, because App Portal only communicates with the central site.

Update Machine Policy on Altiris Management Agent

After adding the user/computer to a filter for deployment, App Portal can update the policy on the Altiris Management Agent on the client to receive the deployment. However, in order to do this, the App Portal system account needs remote WMI access on all the machines. If the remote WMI permissions are granted, enable this option to allow App Portal to remotely update client policy.

Custom Policy Status SQL Query

Enter an SQL query to override the built-in App Portal deployment status checking SQL command for policy based deployments.

For example, you could use the following SQL query:

select Status from Evt_AeX_SWD_Execution where AdvertisementId = 'PolicyGUID' and _ResourceGuid = 'ComputerResourceGUID'

Note • PolicyGUID and ComputerResourceGUID should be replaced with actual values.

One of the following status texts will be returned:

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Success—Command executed, successfully

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Failure—Failed, Terminated

Custom Policy Status SQL Connection String

Enter the connection string of the SQL Server database for the Custom Policy Status SQL Query that you entered. If empty, App Portal will use the default notification server database.

For example, you could use the following SQL query:

Data Source=DBServer;Initial Catalog=DBName;Integrated Security=True

Note • DBServer and DBName should be replaced with actual values.

Important • The App Portal system account must have read access to the database. If none is provided, it defaults to the CMS database

Altiris Tab

App Portal/App Broker 2017 R2 Administration Guide

December 2017