Managing Macintosh Clients
Use the Specify Macintosh Settings operation to enable and disable Macintosh support in Vector AM and to control the inventory information held for Macintosh Clients.
To specify inventory settings for Macintosh Clients:
1 In the Site Management folder, click the Specify Macintosh Settings operation. The Setting the Mac Integration Parameters dialog is displayed.
2 Select the options you want Vector AM to use:
Enable Macintosh support Deselect this check box to prevent all software and hardware inventory operations in this Site from collecting Macintosh Client data.
Macintosh nodename creation Choose an option to choose the name by which Vector AM refers to Macintosh Clients.
Collect hardware inventory Deselect this check box to prevent the collection of hardware inventory data from Macintosh Clients in this Site.
Collect software inventory Deselect this check box to prevent the collection of software inventory data from Macintosh Clients in this Site.
Exclude application names Enter the names of applications you do not want to include in Macintosh software inventories.
Exclude install paths Enter the paths of any folders you do not want to include in software inventories
Exclude Special Folders Enter the names of any Special Folders you want to exclude from software inventories.
Exclude Creator codes Enter the names of any creators you do not want to include in software inventories.
Exclude Bundle Identifiers Enter the names of any third-party software manufacturers you do not want to include in software inventories. For example, to exclude all Adobe applications from Macintosh inventories, enter: Adobe.
3 Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog. The changes take effect when you next run inventory operations against Macintosh Clients.