Altiris Server Management Suite
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New Features
Discovery and Inventory
- Agentless discovery of IP devices including a network topology viewer.
- Centralized credential management for all of the network devices and protocols in a secure, flexible environment for popular protocols: SNMP, IPMI, WSMAN, MIB, etc.
- Data is normalized, consolidated, and secured in a central repository, enabling detailed reporting of asset information from the convenience of a Web console. Server Inventory includes: RHEL, SLES, ESX, MySQL, Oracle, and Apache.
- Enhanced reporting and dashboards across all server platforms.
- Discovery of unique hardware and software relationships including virtual guest/hosts and blade/chassis relationships.
Provisioning
- Continued support and proven ROI for the latest server technology including blades and virtual machines.
- Integration with industry-leading Ghost imaging technologies.
- Save time by using existing images created by Ghost and editing images offline with powerful Ghost utilities.
Software and Patch Management
- Hierarchy and replication of patches and applications.
- Easy-to-use wizard-based patch configuration and reporting.
- Enhanced automated patch management for Windows and Linux Servers.
- Update current SUSE and Red Hat servers independent of satellite servers.
- Keep managers informed by using current reports and dashboards that communicate the status of servers that have the latest patch.
Monitoring and Alerting
- Wizard-based policy creation for monitoring servers.
- Agentless option for monitoring critical server components.
- Pre-set categories of monitored components and metrics within specific monitoring packs.
- Reduce monitoring traffic by selecting specific criteria for each server.
- Save time with self-healing remediation tasks configured before triggered, critical events happen.
- Centralized event console for current status and remediation management.
- Aggregated view of health by resources.
- True server availability using maintenance windows.
- Flexible historical viewer for zooming into details of performance data.
- Remediate faster with automated tasks across the suite with triggered actions on events.






