Collection Extensions

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