This elective course takes a deeper dive into how collection extensions and the underlying actions are created and deployed.
You will receive a Certificate of Completion at the conclusion of this course. There is no certification exam for this elective course.
Sign in as a SysTrack customer to start this course.
Prerequisite
SysTrack Administrator and/or Desktop Engineer course
Course Objective
Use the Action Builder to create an action
Approve and enable an action
Associate an action with a collection extension
Schedule a collection extension to run
Run a collection extension manually
Import and export collection extensions and actions
Course Outline
Introduction
Course Overview
Collection Extension 101
The PowerShell Script
Custom Data Collection with PowerShell
Creating the PowerShell script using specific functions
Creating and Approving Actions
Anatomy of an Action Package
What is an action?
Components of the action package
Using the Action Builder
Creating an action
SysTrack tools used:
Configure: Automations and Collection Extensions > Action Governance > Create Action
Approving and Enabling Actions
Approving, enabling, disabling and deleting actions
Configure: Automations and Collection Extensions > Action Governance
Working with Collection Extensions
Creating a Collection Extension
SysTrack tools used:
Configure: Automations and Collection Extensions > Collection Extensions
Roles and Configurations
Adding collection extension to role
Adding role to configuration
Assigning configuration to systems
Pushing configuration to systems
SysTrack tools used:
Configure: Roles > Tool Schedules > Collection Extension
Configure: Configurations
Configure: Assignments
Configure: Administration > Read Configuration
Testing the Collection Extension
Testing the agent connection by building a test dashboard and connecting to local database
SysTrack tools used:
Dashboard Builder
Aggregating and Visualizing Data
Creating and Processing a View
Creating a view Adding view to role
Pushing configuration to systems
Processing view manually
SysTrack tools used:
Configure: Views
Configure: Roles > Views
Configure: Administration > Read Configuration
Configure: Administration > Process Views
Custom Dashboard
Create custom dashboard to display data
SysTrack tools used:
Dashboard Builder
Additional Topics
Manually Running a Collection Extension
Running a collection extension from Prevent and Resolve
SysTrack tools used:
Prevent: Tools
Resolve: Tools
Importing and Exporting Collection Extensions and Actions
SysTrack tools used:
Configure: Automations and Collection Extensions > Collection Extensions > Import
Configure: Automations and Collection Extensions > Collection Extensions > Export
Configure: Automations and Collection Extensions > Action Governance > Import
Configure: Automations and Collection Extensions > Action Governance > Export
Conclusion
Tags: Configure, Prevent, Resolve, Action Builder, Collection Extension