Site Maintenance

The Site Maintenance page is used to assign subnets to sites in order to maximize the effectiveness of Package Servers. Package Servers are automatically assigned to sites by virtue of their subnets.

Under normal operating conditions (for example, sites defined) a Package Server will only service Altiris Agents that exist within the same sites.

Note: If no sites are defined, then all Package Servers are available to service all Altiris Agents (not desirable) and the following occurs:

The Notification Server stores a mapping of Package Servers to subnets.
The Notification Server first tries to find any Package Servers on the same subnet(s) as the requesting machine. If any are found these codebases are returned.
If there are no Package Server codebases from Package Servers in the same subnet all Package Server codebases are returned.
If there are no Package Server codebases the NS codebases are returned.

To download packages ensure your Package Servers are assigned to sites either by assigning their subnets to sites or by allowing the Connector for Active Directory do it for you

Note: Under normal working conditions, Altiris Agents will only download packages from Package Servers that exist in the same site(s) as the Altiris Agent.

Sites are used to limit the Package Servers that an agent should use by virtue of subnet grouping. This generally limits them by proximity. Ultimately, once the list of candidate Package Servers is returned to the Altiris Agent, the Altiris Agent makes the choice based on speed and bandwidth.

The information on the Site Maintenance page is automatically populated if you have the Connector for Active Directory installed. This page allows you to supplement the Connector for Active Directory, if you have it installed. If not, if you use Package Servers, you must use this page to add sites and assign subnets to them so that your Package Servers function correctly.

If you have the Connector for Active Directory installed, Active Directory is the source of truth and overrides any subnets and sites that conflict with it. For example, if you assign subnets to sites on your own, and they conflict with what is in Active Directory, the Active Directory information is used.

The Sites tab, Subnets tab, and Package Servers tab views on this page give you three views of the same data and the Advanced tab shows scheduling options.

Sites Tab View

This tab view helps you see sites that are created and lets you create and edit sites.

Item	Description
Name	The name of the site.
No of Subnets	The number of subnets that have been associated with the site.
No. of Package Servers	The number of Package Servers that are in the site.

Note: The numbers in the "No. of Subnets" and "No. of Package Servers" columns provide links that take you to reports that give you specific information on the subnets or Package Servers respectively.