Collection Extensions

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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.

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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