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Overview
LANDesk Software and Lenovo have teamed up to create an integrated hardware and software management solution to manage your systems from a single console. By combining the industry leading LANDesk Management Suite software with the award-winning ThinkVantage Technologies, management software, and ThinkPad and ThinkCentre hardware, customers can now have the most powerful hardware and software management tools available in the industry.
Products
LANDesk Management Suite
LANDesk Management Suite is a comprehensive, integrated solution that enables IT professionals to automate critical systems management tasks and proactively control, update and protect desktops, servers and mobile devices-all from a single console.
With LANDesk Management Suite you can gather detailed asset data, deploy applications and operating systems, maintain configuration standards, monitor software usage, solve user problems and develop system-wide security policies. Extended security, patch management and asset tracking features enable a truly comprehensive solution whether systems are inside the corporate firewall or not.
Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies
ThinkVantage Technologies manage the PC life cycle from pre-deployment planning through end-of-life disposition. Hardware and software technologies were developed to reduce IT management costs through each phase of the PC life cycle. Products include Client System Solution, Active Protection System, Secure Data Disposal, ImageUltra Builder, System Migration Assistant, Rescue and Recovery, Access, and Access Connections.
LANDesk Management Suite for ThinkVantage Technologies
Inventory Management n Detailed hardware and software information gathered allows users to have detailed hardware and software inventories, to gather and track custom data fields, to monitor software usage to reduce licensing costs and maintain compliance, to plan upgrades and maintenance and to more quickly respond to audits.
- Detailed asset tag and serial number information as well as embedded pointing device, fixed drive and CD-ROM data give a complete inventory view.
- Reporting capabilities include a reporting dashboard to immediately access inventory and status information, as well as the ability to publish reports to a file share in HTML, PDF, DOC, RTF or XLS formats.
- Networked computing devices can be discovered with auto discovery, unmanaged device discovery (UDD), custom data collection, agentless inventory discovery and delta inventory scans/compression-all through an easy-to-use query UI.
- Intel AMT support can discover all Intel AMT-based hardware and software assets whether a system?s operating system is installed or not.
Software License Monitoring n Capabilities include the ability to scan for both known and unknown applications and a disposition tool to define and track previously unknown applications.
- Application launch denial keeps unauthorized software from running-even on computers not connected to the network.
- Extensive application usage and license compliance reporting, as well as license reporting features
(number of times each licensed application launched, last date used, days since last used, total duration of usage, date purchased, PO and reseller information) give a comprehensive look at software license use.
- Easy configuration of license parameters, including number purchased, license type, quantity, serial number, and tracking by group, department, and organizational, unit make software license monitoring easier.
- Installation tracking and reconciliation, including the license holder, physical location of the computer, discontinued licenses and more, help administrators stay on top of software licenses.
Software Distribution n A single, unified process allows you to create packages, choose targets, define options and schedule package deployment.
- A task-based distribution model separates package building from the delivery method to improve overall process efficiency and enable component re-use.
- LANDesk Targeted Multicast technology minimizes bandwidth used when distributing large packages to multiple users-no need for dedicated hardware or router reconfigurations.
- LANDesk Peer Download technology leverages local bandwidth efficiency to access packages that have been delivered to a subnet.
- Ownership of delivery methods and distribution packages provides a choice of any combination of devices, device groups, database or LDAP queries or objects.
- Policy-based distribution helps automate software availability and keep applications in a preferred state.
- Prerequisite checking and package chaining make it easy to install multiple packages in a single operation as well as automatically install prerequisite packages.
- Task scheduler integrates with directory service and asset inventory databases to make target selection easy; real-time status reporting provides information of deployment task completion status.
- Package-agnostic distribution enables deployment of any package type, including MSI, RPM, setup.exe and other installers; multi-file MSI support enables rapid multicast distribution of large application packages.
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