I use NAL reporting to say whether the application has distributed
successfully and I find that this doesn't tell me whether the application
has INSTALLED properly.

I need a better way of knowing that the MSI has installed correctly and
successfully. Any different ways to report on this?

One instance, I have had to set up a 'simple NAL object' to install an
MSI as I had to use some parameters which did not work in an MSI nal
object (i know you'll ask me questions!). It appears that where one of
the installs failed using this method there was another MSI running so
that is why the application didn't install properly - I had set
a 'Determine Force Run Order'. Surely this should have come back as a
Distribution Failure.

I've read this following documentation - I have seen where an MSI has
failed to install and this gets written back to the logs - is this just
on an MSI app object though?

http://www.novell.com/documentation/zenworks65/index.html?
page=/documentation/zenworks65/dmadmin/data/a6ttaq3.html

leo.tomlin@post.co.uk,

Yeah, I don't think there is anything built-in ZDM for this.
How many workstations are we talking about.

Hi Jared,

we are talkling about 400 desktops

I have an idea to run a NAL object to report on say whether one of the
files reside on the ws but its a bit long winded just to confirm the MSI
has installed OK

Thanks anyway unless you have a better idea.

Leo

leo.tomlin@post.co.uk,,

Don't think I do. Sorry.

1)You can use whatever workstation software audit you use to check for it.
2) Create a second app that displays a Icon based on the exe for the app
that you need to check for, then log the status of the Icon display.

application