My team has been working on creating the selfdiagnostic tool SMPDiag. I would love to hear if the SMPDiag has been helpful and where we can add more value. Any comments are appriciated. Thanks in advance.
Download: tech202997 (http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH202997)
I introduced this to my customers as soon as it came out, and they all had positive feedback for it.
There was a DS test that fails because of a certain table having a hardcoded schema, but that may have been fixed by now.
The Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down options in the tool makes it easy to report this kind of stuff. The data can also be helpful for creating additional tests etc.
It also helps to show the usefulness of the tool and keep it progressing.
I have been running SMPDiag (now version 0.1.1203) across our SMP 7.1 servers since I returned from the Endpoint Management summit in Ready in January 2014. This tool is a must-have for all Symantec administrators.
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It's a shame the rest of Altiris isn't written this well - we wouldn't need the Diag tool if it was ;-)