Data Sheet: Endpoint Management
Altiris™ Deployment Solution from Symantec
Reduce the time and cost of deploying and managing IT devices
Overview
Altiris™ Deployment Solution from Symantec helps reduce
the cost of deploying and managing servers, desktops, and
notebooks from a centralized location in your environment.
The solution offers OS deployment, configuration, PC
"personality" migration, and software deployment across
hardware platforms and OS types, including Microsoft®
Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008. Deployment
Solution helps reduce end-user downtime by automating
the deployment process and increases IT efficiency through
automated, repeatable deployment processes.
Hands-off desktop and server deployment
Deployment Solution makes it easy to deploy your desktops
and servers. For example, you can build a reference system
using Symantec Ghost™ imaging technology. Once your
reference system has been built with your standard OS and
applications, you can mass-deploy a hardware-independent
image of the reference system to your new and existing
systems. Because every system is unique, you can assign
security IDs (SIDs) and configure user names, IP addresses,
and other network settings. In addition to supporting a wide
variety of hardware types, Deployment Solution also
supports multiple operating systems, including many
versions of Windows® and Linux®. Deploying servers,
desktops, and notebooks has never been easier. Key
features include:
• Single deployment solution for desktops, servers, and
notebooks
• Flexible imaging technology that includes award-winning
Symantec Ghost™
• Supports Intel® vPro™ and Wired for Management
specifications such as PXE and Wake on LAN™
• Supports Windows® PE and Linux® pre-boot
environments
• Supports hardware independent image deployments
• Provides tools for hands-free migration, which increases
return on investment
• Configures a computer using imaging, scripting or a
combination of both
• Integrated with the Symantec™ Management Platform to
give you better scalability and accurate targeting for
imaging and deployment jobs.
Deployment Solution Web console gives you real-time status of
deployment jobs and a drag and drop interface to launch tasks.
Easy-to-use management console
Deployment Solution’s centralized Web console has
everything you need to create jobs and tasks that enable
you to deploy and migrate all the laptops, desktops, and
servers in your organization. The console includes support
for adding, modifying, and deleting computers, jobs, and
tasks; and support for managing virtual computers and
images. Once the tasks have been created, a simple drag
operation gets the deployment processes started. Powerful
reporting features give users views of overall and current
job status. Access can be restricted to the console functions
and managed systems with built-in role-and-scope-based
security, enabling only authorized staff can access and
manage appropriate systems.
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