Server Management Suite (SMS)

Simplify Deployment and Management of your server infrastructure
When addressing server management needs, IT organizations typically have three primary goals:

• Do more with less by consolidating server resources and tools, and simplifying training.
• Prevent risk and liability by reducing manual efforts, minimizing security exposures, and integrating disaster recovery.
• Deliver value to your business by reducing time to deploy, increasing system availability, and reducing manual efforts and human error.

Altiris Server Management Suite helps you achieve these goals.

Increase Speed and Reliability
Server Management Suite is the industry's most complete IT lifecycle management solution that decreases the cost and complexity of deploying and configuring servers. By automating time-consuming tasks, you can reduce human error and minimize server downtime - and save money. The suite allows you to improve system availability and reliability, and respond quickly to rapidly changing business requirements. Server Management Suite:

• Improves the reliability and availability of servers to minimize business disruptions and improve customer satisfaction
• Automates IT operation management in order to respond quickly to changes in an organization's business needs
• Monitors performance, restores operations, and mitigates security patch vulnerabilities to ensure business continuity

You want to ensure that your IT department moves from a cost center to a valuable component of your organization. Server Management Suite can help you use IT to drive profitability, establish and sustain a competitive edge, and predict planning to reduce risk and vulnerabilities to your server environment.

Server Management Suite provides several advantages within multiple levels of proactive server management.

Level 3 - Availability and performance monitoring - Advanced historic and real-time data views - Aggregate uptime and trend reporting - Automated responses, including restart services and reboot
Level 2 - Web-based, real-time remediation console, including traceroute and port check - Automate system snapshots prior to configuration changes
Level 1 - Standard server build processes, and application and hardware rollouts - Apply firmware upgrades, service packs, patches, and hot fixes - Make application updates - Gather hardware and software inventory - Monitor and enforce desired configuration states

Server Management Suite reduces the complexity of operating your servers by providing comprehensive tools that streamline provisioning, automated deployment, patch management, desired-state management, and recovery services.