Symantec ALTIRIS 6 INVENTORY SOLUTION Datasheet

CLIENT & MOBILE MANAGEMENT
BENEFITS
> Inventory virtually any
system, including Windows, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, Macintosh, and handheld and network devices
supportability and reduce support costs
> Reduce cost and complexity
associated with application and OS rollouts and updates
> Mobile-friendly features
include reporting of delta changes, a cache and forward design, and over-the-wire data compression
> Extend management
capabilities as business grows, matures, and business needs change
Altiris®6
Inventory Solution
®
COMPREHENSIVE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE INVENTORY FOR YOUR ENTIRE ENTERPRISE
INVENTORY IS WHERE IT BEGINS
To effectively manage your enterprise, you need an accurate and thorough inventory of your desktops, servers, notebooks, handhelds, and network devices. Knowing what you have and where it’s located empowers you to reduce IT support costs, protect your network, improve success of software deployments, and focus on higher-level objectives.
KNOW WHAT’S OUT THERE
It’s no longer a complicated and time-consuming undertaking to gather detailed hardware and software assessment across your enterprise. Inventory Solution provides a comprehensive assessment of your discoverable assets supporting virtually any platform, including Windows
*, UNIX*,
Linux
*, Macintosh*, NetWare*, Palm*, RIM*, and
network devices.The solution provides you with the foundation you need to achieve your asset management goals by allowing you to aggregate data across your environment so you can quickly and easily generate software audit reports, assess security vulnerabilities, and more accurately determine hardware needs and availability.
IMPROVE SYSTEM SUPPORTABILITY
With Inventory Solution you can improve application supportability and reduce support costs. The solution allows you to identify unique applications and versions across your enterprise so you can quickly determine which systems are out of compliance with corporate standards. In addition, by identifying unauthorized software, you can decrease your exposure to system incompatibilities and security and virus threats. Inventory Solution also includes hundreds of pre-packaged Web reports making hardware and software inventory readily available to your help desk and IT support staff so they can easily troubleshoot and better forecast future problems.
SPEED APPLICATION ROLLOUTS
Inventory Solution helps you reduce the cost and complexity associated with application and OS rollouts and updates. Use the solution and built-in Web reports to quickly and easily identify hardware that requires upgrading or replacement and more accurately target application and OS updates.
EXTENSIBLE MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE
With Altiris you not only benefit from comprehensive integration with its powerful suites and solutions, you also gain the no-hassle benefits of a single-vendor, which reduces training and support costs.You also benefit from a faster return on investment and a lower total cost of ownership than a best-of-breed approach. Inventory Solution is a component of the Altiris extensible management architecture (EMA), so you benefit from native integration with Altiris help desk, asset management, and software management solutions, making it easy to extend capabilities as your business grows and matures and your business needs change.
Inventory Solution serves as the first step in gaining deeper control over your organization's hardware and software assets. For example, by upgrading to Altiris
® Asset Management Suite,
Client Management Suite
, or Server Management
Suite
, Inventory Solution allows you to correlate
application installation information with Altiris application usage and contract administration data to provide complete software license management. By optimizing your software license environment, your organization can benefit from dramatic cost savings from harvesting unused license, reducing maintenance and support contract renewals, and more accurate planning for future software needs.
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Altiris® Inventory Solution®reduces the cost of identifying and managing heterogeneous devices throughout your enterprise. Easily track comprehensive hardware information, installed software packages, and operating system settings for all IT assets throughout their lifecycle. Data is normalized, consolidated, and secured in a central repository, enabling detailed reporting of asset information from the convenience of a Web console.
Copyright © 2006,Altiris, Inc. All rights reser ved. Except as provided in Altiris' license agreement governing Altiris Inventory Solution, Altiris assumes no liability whatsoever, and disclaims any express or implied warranties relating to the use of this product, including without limitation, warranties of fitness for a particular purpose,merchantability, or infringement of any third-party intellectual property rights. Altiris may have patents or pending patent applications, trademarks,copyrights, or other intellectual property rights that relate to this product.The furnishing of this document and other materials and information does not provide any license, express or implied, by estoppel or otherwise, to any foregoing intellectual property rights. *Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.
Inventory Solution includes hundreds of pre-packaged Web reports for quick access to detailed inventory information. This report displays a count of all the operating systems, including versions and service packs.
TRY INVENTORY SOLUTION FOR FREE!
Download a free 30-day evaluation version of Inventory Solution at www
.altiris.com/eval.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Inventory Solution requires that you install and configure the Altiris Notification Server
.
Notification Server Minimum Requirements
> Processor—Pentium
* lll 800 MHz or faster
> Memory—1 GB RAM > Hard drive—20 GB > Operating system—Windows Server 2003 or
Windows 2000 Server
> Database—Microsoft
* SQL Server 2000 SP3
> Browser—Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later
Altiris Agent Minimum Requirements
> Operating system—Windows 95 or later > Available disk space—5 MB disk space for Altiris
Agent, plus space to install required software
> Memory—64 MB RAM > Browser—Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or later
Palm and Pocket PC Device Requirements
> Disk space—1 MB > Program memory—2 MB for Palm, 16 MB for
Pocket PC
> Operating system—Palm 2.0 or later; Windows
CE 3.0, Pocket PC 2000/2002 or Windows Mobile 2003
Supported UNIX/Linux Platforms
> AIX
*
> HP-UX* > Red Hat
*
> Solaris* > SUSE* > UnitedLinux
*
Macintosh Requirements
> Processor—PowerPC
* G3, G4, or G5
> Memory—64 MB RAM > Operating system—Mac
* OS X 10.2.8 or later
CLIENT & MOBILE MANAGEMENT
“Altiris Inventory Solution came out ahead of all the others from a capabilities standpoint, and it was also the most affordable. Inventory Solution made an immediate impact and is now being used in all of Koch’s companies. Thanks to Altiris Inventory Solution, we spend our time doing what end users need, not supporting our own management tools.”
—TRA CUNNINGHAM
Platform Analyst
Koch Industries, Inc.
Client Management Suite
91210-10 082206
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