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HP Client Automation Enterprise

HP Client Automation Enterprise is a true desired state client management solution for highly complex, ever-changing

enterprise environments. By automating management across your physical or virtual client fleet from assessment to

acquisition, deployment, management, and retirement you can improve availability, security, and compliance. HP Client

Automation Enterprise is recommended for customers with over 10,000 devices or more complex environments and has

unlimited scalability providing continuous policy enforcement, monitoring, alerting, remediation, and reporting on

hardware, applications, and OS.

With continuous configuration management, you can expect dramatic savings in IT costs, accelerated time-to-market

for software and content, and increased user productivity and satisfaction.

Based on a single, policy-driven architecture, HP Client Automation Enterprise allows you to inventory, deploy, patch,

and continuously manage software and content across heterogeneous hardware and OS platforms. Key functionality

includes:

 Automating the entire lifecycle management process from discovery, deployment, and ongoing management through

migration and retirement

 Automatically deploying and continuously managing the entire software stack (OSs, applications, patches, settings,

and content) to maintain a desired state

 Managing software on almost any device, including desktops and notebooks, in a heterogeneous or standalone

infrastructure

 Managing software on most OSs

HP Client Automation Enterprise includes the following features:

 Policy-based, continuous desired-state automation

 Task-based automation

 Hardware and software inventory reports

 Software distribution

 OS security patch management, continuous verification, and repair

 OS image deployment with user settings backup and migration

 Software usage metering

 BIOS management, as well as HP ProtectTools for embedded security

 HP SoftPaq acquisition and deployment

 Scheduling for power functions and remotely control devices

 Real-time HP hardware alerts (SMART Drives, Client Management Interface (CMI))

 Support for a range of HP-managed Thin Client OS platforms, including Windows XP Embedded (XPe), Windows

Embedded Standard (WES), Windows Embedded Compact (CE), HP ThinPro, and Debian Linux

 Operational dashboards

 Security and compliance management

 Integration with HP Asset Manager and Operations Orchestration

 Integration with HP Essentials Network Integration

 Application Management Profiles (AMP)

 Scalability – scales to over 100,000 devices

 Windows and Linux support for desktops, notebooks, workstations, and blades

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