Preface

Before using this documentation, we recommend that you review the document conventions (see “Document Conventions” on page 6).

Detailed information about Altiris products is included in each product’s documentation. The product’s documentation is installed when the product is installed. To access Altiris product documentation from the Web, go to our documentation Web page at www.altiris.com/support/ documentation.

If you have questions that are not answered in the documentation, we recommend that you use one of our support options (see “Support” on page 7).

If you have feedback about this documentation, please send an e-mail message to our documentation group at doc@altiris.com.

Document Conventions

The following table describes the conventions used in this document.

Document Conventions

What you see

Meaning

Altiris eXpress

Notification Server

User Guide

Interface Element Name

File > Save

References to other documents are italicized.

Note Most references to Altiris documents are hypertext links to those documents. For these links to work, the target document file must be in the same location as the source document.

If viewing PDF documentation from our product CD or where the documents were installed on your hard drive, the links will work.

If viewing a PDF document from our web site, the links to other Altiris documents will not work. (The documents are stored in different folders).

If you download PDF documents from our web site and place them in the same folder, the document references will link to the other PDF document provided the target PDF document is in the folder.

Buttons, menu items, tabs, and field names are displayed in bold text.

A series of mouse selections are represented in this format. The above example means click on the File command on the menu bar, and then click on the Save command.

server name/altiris/

A value in a path that depends on the user’s system is in italics. In this

documents

example, server name needs to be replaced by the name of the user’s

 

server.

set variable = 123 Sample code is in Courier font.

www.altiris.com

Links to web pages are in blue text.

 

 

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