What is needed or configured during initial SMP installation via SIM?
ITMS 8.x
On the computer where you plan to install IT Management Suite, you must install the following server roles and server role services:
NOTE: Depending on our software release, if the new or required role services are not previously installed, you are prompted to install the roles during the Install Readiness Check in the
Symantec Installation Manager installation wizard.
Regarding our IRC (Install Readiness Check) configuration for IIS, it installs and sets:
SIM itself performs several tasks:
Also, there are a lot of Altiris website configuration steps performed by the platform installation process.
As far as the needed services:
NOTE: All these processes are positioned as services and those are used as any other Windows application usually does.