HP Client Management solutions overview - Technical white paper

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 Proactive hardware health alerting – You can receive health alerts from your HP systems, including thermal
conditions and proactive hard drive failure warnings from HP SMART
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technology.
Policy enforcement for key HP Professional Innovations Software
You can use LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 to remotely enforce and control policies on some HP Professional
Innovations Software solutions. For example, you can use LANDesk Management Suite with the following solutions:
 HP Power Assistant – You can now perform the following activities:
– Assign detailed power profiles (with OS as well as device-level power management settings) and power schedules
that specify sleep or wake times
– Change the active power profiles of HP systems to enhance power management control
– View detailed power consumption and up-time utilization statistics
 HP Connection Manager – You can now remotely management different communication devices and network
connections, including WWAN, WLAN, and LAN connections. A simple user interface drives quick connectivity via
intuitive buttons and controls.
 HP Support Framework (HP Battery Check) – You can now remotely test the status of the batteries in HP systems
featuring HP SMART Battery Technology. Using a built-in microchip, HP SMART Batteries can maintain and report their
own health status.
Key features
Table 1 summarizes the features offered in LANDeskManagement Suite 9.5.
Table 1. Key LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 features
Benefit
Feature
Description
Enterprise
efficiency and
scalability
Content replication
Replicate content from any file server source to other servers, enabling
faster, more controllable, and more efficient distribution of content,
patches, and updates
Core synchronization
Manage configurations and tasks on a central core; synchronize the
configurations and tasks of all cores
Rollup core
Collect and view data from every core, providing a centralized view of
the enterprise
Reporting
Utilize powerful, flexible reporting capabilities to display the data you
care about in the way you want to see it
LANDesk Cloud
Services Appliance
Provide complete anytime, anywhere management access for users
outside your corporate firewall and at geographically-distributed sites
Role-based
administration
Make console user management easy, secure, and flexible; define
administrative access via defined roles or, if preferred, via granular
permissions per user or per group
LANDesk Dynamic
Preferred Server
Distribute packages with functional load balancing and fault tolerance
Cross-platform
support
Utilize broad platform support to reduce cost, increase productivity, and
gain control of end user environments – latest platforms supported
include Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion,
CentOS 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11,
Solaris 10, and HP-UX 11.
Agent watcher
Restart downed agents, restore them to their original state, and alert IT
staff if a user removes or tampers with one
Enterprise alerting
Maintain control and keep the most important information in one easy-
to-view section
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Where SMART denotes Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology