DESKTOP & SERVER MANAGEMENT

Bring BigFix economics and operational excellence to key IT operations management functions including asset inventory, software license management, power management, software distribution, and patch management. Taking on the most common IT operational processes, BigFix delivers the highest levels of automation combined with fine-grained accuracy enabling your IT organization to focus on strategic tasks rather than routine drudgery.

Desktop & Server Management Highlights

• On-demand delivery
• Continuous policy enforcement where applicable
• IP-enabled and rogue network device discovery
• Hardware and software inventory and software usage tracking
• Software distribution and policy-based software provisioning
• Software patch management and security update delivery for major operating systems and common commercially-available applications
• SANS, STIGS, NIST, Microsoft, and BigFix security best practices
• Endpoint power management combining policy-based energy conservation and BigFix Wake-on-LAN technologies
• Custom policy creation and enforcement

Desktop & Server Management Benefits

• “Instant on” for immediate implementation in your environment
• Consolidate and simplify key system management services enterprise-wide
• Real-time visibility into endpoint client (desktop, mobile/laptop, server) configuration specifications
• Manage heterogeneous (Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS) asset bases from the BigFix Console
• Shorten software update cycles from weeks to days and hours
• Extend system management to mobile clients on- or off-enterprise network
• Set alarms to instantly notify administrators of anomalous conditions or suspected rogue activities
• Enhance and improve effectiveness of widely available configuration management solutions such as BMC Marimba, HP Radia, IBM Tivoli, Microsoft Windows SMS/SUS/SCCM, etc.
• Integrate BigFix system configuration data with third party correlation and reporting tools