Set of custom mouse right click menus will quickly provide common information for selected resource
1. List of custom menus for selected resource when you will mouse right click on selected resource in SMP Console
2. Example of how it looks for mouse right click on managed endpoint from Symantec Management Console
As we can see, user can mouse right click on selected managed client computer and check what tasks were executed for this particular endpoint.
3.Note:
3.1 - Each custom right click menu has own rule conditions. Otherwise, if rule condition(s) passes then this custom right click menu will be available for selected resource.
For example "Show Patch Updates Summary of this resource" custom right click menu has rule condition
- Resource Type = 'Computer'
- MAC Address = 'Not NULL'
AND
- Agent Name = 'Altiris Software Update Agent'
Result:
- "Show Patch Updates Summary of this Computer" custom right click menu will be available only for resources which are 'Computer' with 'MAC Address' not NULL' and has "Software Update Agent" installed.
3.2 - You always can modify existing rule condition(s) in this custom right click menu(s) and set appropriate conditions according to your purpose/environment.
4. How to import these custom right click menu actions and use them
- Download attached file "Common Resource Information.xml"
- Open Symantec Management Console ⇒ "Settings"⇒ "All Settings"⇒ expand "Notification Server" folder ⇒ expand "Right Click Menu" folder ⇒ mouse right click menu on "User Defined" folder ⇒ click "Import"⇒ choose downloaded .xml file and Import it.
Works for 7.1 SP2 MP1, 7.5.x, 7.6.x and 8.0.x