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Symantec Asset Management Suite Administration

( Duration: 2 Days )

This Symantec Asset Management Suite Administration training course is designed for professionals tasked with using Symantec Asset Management Suite (AMS) to manage their software and hardware resources in their organizations. This course teaches the underlying components and concepts of the Symantec Management Platform along with the Symantec Management Console that is used by AMS to perform its management functions. You will learn to use AMS software solutions to manage the software, account for and track assets, and to manage license compliance. You will also learn to use the platform consoles and reports to analyze and monitor the environment.

By attending Symantec Asset Management Suite Administration workshop, delegates will learn to:

  • Discover and import computer and user resources that you want to manage
  • Gather hardware, software and operating system inventory
  • Remotely manage computers
  • Maintain a software repository
  • Deliver software to managed computers
  • Meter and track software on managed computers
  • Distribute software updates to managed computers
  • Establish and maintain relationships between assets
  • Employ contracts and procurement processes
  • Analyze gathered data using predefined & custom reports

  • Basic understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft Windows (7, 8, 10, 2008, 2012) operating systems and optionally Linux and Mac operating systems.

The Symantec Asset Management Suite Administration class is ideal for:

  • IT administrators who will be maintaining and installing software, taking inventory of computers, distributing software updates to computers, performing asset management functions or remotely managing computers using any of the following Symantec suites:
    • IT Management Suite
    • Client Management Suite
    • Asset Management Suite
    • Server Management Suite

COURSE AGENDA

1

Asset Management Overview

  • The case for asset management
  • Asset management components within ITMS
2

Planning the Asset Management System

  • Relationship of assets, configuration items and resources
  • Determining resources to track
  • Elements of the resource model
3

Preparing Resources

  • Creating custom resource components
  • Preparing organizational and financial resources
  • Configuring asset settings
4

Populating Resources

  • Resource population methods
  • Populating data with the data connector
  • Creating data source definitions
  • Creating and scheduling data transfer rules
5

Asset Automation & Maintenance

  • Performing asset automation & maintenance tasks
  • Populating asset data using CMDB rules
6

Reporting on Resources

  • Asset management reports
  • Running organizational types reports
  • Reviewing KPIs and dashboards
  • Working with IT analytics asset management reports
7

Software Asset Management Overview

  • Software asset management overview
  • Identifying software licenses
8

Recording Software Licenses

  • Software license management data
  • Recording device based software licenses
  • Recording user based software licenses
  • Recording hardware based software licenses
9

Inventory of Software Installation and Usage

  • Maintaining software asset relationships
  • Ensuring a consistent software inventory baseline
  • Application metering and tracking for use in SLM
10

Comparing Licenses with Inventory

  • Software utilization and usage summary data
  • Analyzing device based software compliance
  • Analyzing user based software compliance
  • Analyzing hardware based software compliance
11

Remediation of Software License Discrepancies

  • Reporting on software license compliance
  • Notification of software license position
  • Software license harvesting
  • Control of software access and usage
12

Working with Contracts

  • Contract management challenges
  • Preparing to create contract resources
  • Creating contract resources
  • Configuring automation policies
  • Running contract reports
13

Working with Procurement

  • Overview of procurement management
  • Preparing the procurement environment
  • Requesting, ordering, and receiving purchases
  • Running procurement reports

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