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Altiris® Server Management Suite

Easily control and automate server management.

Altiris® Server Management Suite provides IT administrators with a comprehensive solution for managing physical and virtual servers. The suite provides solutions to provision, control, automate, and measure servers from a central console. With these tools you gain control of your servers, reduce service interruptions, and increase uptime.

Benefits of the Altiris® Server Management Suite

Server Management Suite 7.0 provides the essential capabilities to discover, provision, manage and monitor server infrastructures across a range of platforms – regardless of whether the server is physical or virtual. This allows IT administrators to increase the availability of servers and critical business systems. New features in Server Management Suite 7.0 include:

  • Integrated performance monitoring allows IT administrators to quickly identify and resolve issues impacting the availability of distributed IT servers. This new feature provides an easy to use set of tools to intelligently monitor key performance attributes and rapidly diagnose issues with a historical data workbench.
  • Consolidated event management enables organizations to collect, store and analyze performance and operational events as well as respond to critical issues. The event console normalizes a broad scope of event data and correlates the impact of incidents based on the criticality to business. There are dozens of remediation tasks available for immediate problem resolution.
  • New scheduling and change management features help IT administrators to improve day-to-day management by giving them a view of all change activities and allowing them to easily implement maintenance windows when allowed changes can occur.

    • Server Management Suite 7.0 automates and regulates the repetitive manual IT tasks required to manage physical and virtual appliances. By eliminating the human error associated with performing such tasks manually, the suite dramatically decreases downtime, successfully meets corporate guidelines, and saves companies money every day.

    Features of the Altiris® Server Management Suite

    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.


     

     

     

     

     

     

    		 Symantec® Platform
    (Symantec Management Console, database, Notification Server and Client Management Suite management components)

    • .NET Framework 3.5
    • Internet Explorer® 7
    • SQL Server® 2005
    • Windows 2003 Server 32-bit version
    • Windows Automated Installation Kit(AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (optional)

    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 3, 3 (x86_64), 4, 4 (x86_64), 5, 5 (x86_64)
    • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, 10 (x86_64)

    Mac Agent

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