Techie Pie

Here’s an easy way to force computers to report inventory to Notification Server via a job on Deployment Server:

1. Copy the file AeXWebInvPkg.exe to the client;

2. Copy a batch file to the client to run the executible:

@echo off
echo Altiris is collecting inventory on this computer.
echo Please do not close this window. It will close on it’s own in a moment.
c:\aexwebinvpkg.exe

3. Run a vb script to launch the batch file:

Set sh = CreateObject(”WScript.Shell”)
Set fso = CreateObject(”Scripting.FileSystemObject”)

sh.run “c:\inventory_ns.bat”

Set sh = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing

Since we have a fairly aggressive purge policy in place on NS, I use this script to get computers back quickly after a campus has been offline for the summer.