Client Management Suite (CMS)

Comprehensive IT Lifecycle Management
Your IT department is faced with a challenging task - daily management of numerous, constantly changing clients, including desktops, notebooks, and handhelds. Additionally, you must provide necessary access to critical enterprise resources while maintaining acceptable levels of security, support, and software management.

Take control of your computing environment with Altiris Client Management Suite! Deploy, manage, migrate, and troubleshoot clients within your environment from a central Web-based management console.

Systems Management Made Simple
Client Management Suite is an easy-to-use systems management solution that reduces the total cost of ownership for desktops, notebooks, and handheld devices. Developed for IT professionals who manage computing devices on a regular basis, the suite enables administrators to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot systems from virtually anywhere. Client Management Suite provides:

• Secure management with role-and-scope-based security
• Zero-touch OS deployment and migration
• Integrated hardware and software inventory with Web-based reporting
• Policy-based software management
• Automated patch management
• Software license compliance and harvesting
• Native integration with Microsoft Active Directory
• Centralized management of mixed hardware and OS environments
• Intuitive management interface with real-time dashboards and distribution wizards

Client Management Suite reduces the total cost of ownership of your IT devices by:

• Reducing training, support, integration, and implementation costs associated with managing your desktops, notebooks, and handhelds
• Streamlining deployment and migration efforts
• Reducing system and environment risk and vulnerability with software delivery, application, and patch management
• Reducing help desk inquiries and problem resolution incidents as a result of fewer system "touches"

According to IDC, "Altiris can now claim to provide all five functions for desktop management support: software distribution, IT asset management, remote control, PC backup, and settings and configuration management. Altiris is one of only a few vendors offering a comprehensive Client Management Suite solution." (Fred Broussard, senior analyst, "PC and Device Management Software," IDC, August 2002.)

Client Management Suite provides several advantages within multiple levels of proactive client management.

Level 3 - Network-wide backup and disaster recovery - Cross-hardware recovery
Level 2 - Local system snapshot and rollback - Real-time diagnosis and remediation - Wise Package Studio Pro Edition* *1 license per every 1,000 nodes purchased
Level 1 - Comprehensive hardware and software inventory - OS imaging, deployment, and configuration - Policy-based mobile software delivery - System vulnerability assessment and patch management - Application self-healing and repair - Conflict analysis and desired state - Application usage and denial of service - Remote control and file system sync - PC personality and OS migration - Web-based remote control

By integrating directly with other Altiris solutions such as Asset Management Suite, Client Management Suite is the first step in gaining deeper control over your organization's hardware and software assets.