HP Client Management Solutions Overview - White Paper

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compliance. HP Client Automation Enterprise has unlimited scalability providing continuous policy
enforcement, monitoring, alerting, remediation, and reporting on hardware, applications, and OS.
HP Client Automation provides the IT professional with:
 Integrated software management
– Inventory collection accurately discovers and inventories installed hardware and software assets on
managed devices
– Operating system deployment and settings migration enables bare-metal deployment of operating
systems and migration to new operating systems while preserving application and user settings
– Patch management identifies and assesses vulnerabilities, deploys patches and performs continuous
verification to protect PCs from security exposures
– Software distribution (including updates) to locally and remotely connected end users
– Software usage metering gives a clear view into the real-world usage patterns of every application
in the environment
 Integrated hardware management
– Remote control enables administrators to remotely troubleshoot PCs to resolve user problems and
perform various power management operations
– HP alert monitoring automatically flags disruptive occurrences on HP PCs for administrative action
– HP hardware driver and BIOS revision feature constantly compares and updates your HP systems
to the latest revisions available from HP
– Integration with HP ProtectTools enables remote initialization of embedded TPM chips and
distribution of HP ProtectTools management software
– Free add-on support for Intel® Active Management Technology (iAMT) using HP Out-of-Band
Management Console to discover and heal AMT-enabled PCs regardless of the state of the device,
enabling the user to manage the PC even when the operating system is not running or the PC is
turned off
 Quick time to value – installs in under an hour and provides out-of-the-box functionality for common
management use cases
 Ease of use – designed for self-deployment and self-learning, and allows IT administration from an
integrated Web-based console
HP Client Automation is offered in three editions: HP Client Automation Starter, HP Client Automation
Standard and HP Client Automation Enterprise.
HP Client Automation Starter
HP Client Automation Starter is a free product for managing HP desktops, notebooks and workstations.
It provides hardware and software inventory, HP alert monitoring, HP BIOS and driver updates,
integration with HP ProtectTools, and add-on support for Intel AMT. The Basic Edition also supports
deployment and management of HP Thin Clients.
HP Client Automation Standard
HP Client Automation Standard is available for purchase. It includes all functionality provided in Basic
Edition and adds Windows deployment and migration, patch management capabilities, software
distribution and software usage metering for HP Thin Clients. HP Client Automation Standard provides
administrators with out-of-the-box functionality for hardware and software management. HP Client
Automation Standard is a task-based management solution for Microsoft® Windows® and HP Thin
Client environments that is easy to use and quick to deploy, while providing a strong foundation for
future requirements.