The Symantec Management Platform 7.1 Administration course is designed for I.T. specialists tasked with installing, managing, and troubleshooting Symantec Management Platform. This five-day, instructor-led, hands-on class covers Symantec Management Platform installation and infrastructure, and how to create and configure key items in the Symantec Management Console, such as tasks, policies, organizational groups, targets, and filters. Students also learn how to run reports and replication, create a hierarchy, configure site servers, find and access data in the database, and apply troubleshooting techniques.

Course Objectives

• Install and configure Notification Server and Altiris Agents
• Customize the Symantec Management Console
• Use Resource Manager to discover computers and other resources
• Create and manage organizational views, organizational groups, filters, and targets
• Administer user-based policies
• Schedule maintenance tasks and policies
• Set privileges, permissions, and secure the infrastructure with scoping
• Generate custom and standard reports
• Manage your environment using sites, site servers, and subnets
• Run replication
• Design a Notification Server hierarchy, configure hierarchy replication, and publish content in a hierarchy
• Use tools and utilities to check the health of Notification Server

Prerequisites

• Basic understanding and knowledge of Microsoft Windows
• Familiarity with networking concepts, including LANs, network adapter cards, drivers, and network operating systems
• Familiarity with computer hardware components such as hubs, switches, and routers
• (Optional, but recommended) Familiarity using VMware Audience
• System administrators responsible for installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Notification Server
• System administrators responsible for installing, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Notification Server

Audience

System Administrators responsible for installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting

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