Altiris Client Management Suite

Suite for Inventory, Deployment, Patching, Remote Assistant home title

Deploy, manage, secure, and troubleshoot.

Product Overview

Altiris® Client Management Suite™ Version 7 is a comprehensive systems management solution for IT professionals who are responsible for the complete management-deployment, ongoing upkeep, and retirement-of their organization’s desktop and notebook computers. This fully-integrated suite of management tools automates management tasks and reduces desk-side visits which can substantially lower the total cost of owning client computers and software.

Client Management Suite™ includes these Altiris® solutions and components:
Deployment Solution™ including Ghost™ Imaging Foundation
Inventory Solution®
Patch Management Solution™
pcAnywhere™
Real Time Systems Manager™
Software Management Solution™
Wise software packaging tools
Out of Band Management Component™ which helps you configure and manage Intel® vPro™, DASH, and ASF-equipped PCs
Inventory for Network Devices

Features

	Comprehensive Client Discovery and Inventory Optimize software licenses, better support end users, and reduce costs associated with OS deployments and software rollouts.
	Industry Leading Imaging & Deployment Reduce the time associated with imaging and cloning PCs. Reduce support and maintenance costs by deploying standardized, corporate approved, hardware-independent images.
	Intelligent Software and Patch Management Update software automatically, reliably and remotely.
	Flexible Remote Assistance Reduce the costs and time associated with troubleshooting and remediating client systems remotely.
	Complete Process Automation It’s less about the tools and more about the people and process . Now you can expand process automation to orchestrate the timely interaction between people and systems management with Client Management Suite’s workflow capabilities. In addition, the suite has expanded task management capabilities. Better automation of day to day or redundant client systems management tasks. Bring people, process, and systems management together in a single tool.

Additional Features

Intelligent Software Management

It’s more than delivering software; it’s about managing the software. Client Management Suite’s new Software Catalog features enable intelligent software delivery by creating smart policies to install the correct version of the software along with any updates and prerequisites. And it ensures that the software remains installed and is configured correctly on the client system.

Best-in-class and Integrated Technologies

Now you don’t have to choose between best-in-class technology or integration. Client Management Suite 7.0 integrates the best of Symantec Ghost, Symantec pcAnywhere, Workspace Virtualization (Software Virtualization Solution), Wise, and Deployment Solution into a single, comprehensive client systems management solution.

Enhanced Day to Day Operations

Spend more time managing and less-time configuring. Client Management Suite provides enhanced centralized management and actionable information. Managing systems from within reports is as close as a right-click of the mouse. You can view all targeted activities on clients in a single calendar view, display actionable consolidated views and dashboards, and get a better view of events occurring across the system. In addition, the suite’s expanded report-building capabilities provide IT with more options for creating the reports they need.

Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008
.NET Framework 3.5
Internet Explorer 7.0 or above

Windows Agent

Windows XP SP2 or later x64/x86
Windows 2000 Workstation SP4 and rollups
Windows Vista SP1 (all additions)
Windows Server 2003, 2008

Linux Agent

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 4 x64/x86, 5 x64/x86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 x64/x86, 11 x64/x86

Mac Agent

Mac OS X 10.4.x (Universal binary), 10.5.x (Universal binary), 10.6.x (Universal binary)
Mac OS X Server 10.3.9 (PPC), 10.4.x (Universal binary), 10.5.x (Universal binary)

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