Components Of Server Management Suite - Symantec ALTIRIS SERVER MANAGEMENT SUITE 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

12 Introducing Server Management Suite

Components of Server Management Suite

Components of Server Management Suite
security vulnerabilities, prepare for software audits, and more accurately
determine hardware availability and needs.
Provisioning
The suite lets you improve the consistency and increase the quality of server
configurations. It delivers the comprehensive deployment capabilities that
include image-based or scripted operating system installation and ongoing
provisioning. The suite helps you implement the standardized configurations,
and provides you the tools for migration.
Software distribution and patch management
The suite lets you control server configurations through its software
management capabilities. The automated policies for software and patch
management help you keep the servers standardized and secure. You can
modify similar configurations on multiple servers simultaneously. You can
distribute applications, and security updates to target systems.
Proactive monitoring and alerting
The suite helps you proactively monitor the critical components of your
network. You can increase the network uptime with the self-healing
remediation tasks that are configured before the critical events occur. You can
organize your servers into vital groups and quickly ascertain the current health
of the whole network. The monitoring capabilities provide you also a
summarized view of each single server performance over time.
See "Components of Server Management Suite"
See "Where to get more information"
Server Management Suite is a collection of solutions that run on the Symantec
Management Platform. These solutions let you discover, inventory, monitor, and
provision servers from a central Console.
See "About Server Management Suite"
on page 12.
on page 15.
on page 11.