HP Client Management Solutions Overview - White Paper

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HP Client Automation Enterprise
HP Client Automation Enterprise continuously monitors and manages complex, distributed, and
changing IT environments. This suite of enterprise-class products based on a single, policy-driven
architecture is recommended for companies anticipating significant growth or with a high degree of
changes in the IT environment, such as combining disparate IT infrastructures because of a new
corporate standard, merger or acquisition. With continuous configuration management, HP customers
report dramatic savings in IT costs, accelerated time-to-market for software and content, and increased
user productivity and satisfaction.
HP Client Automation Enterprise enables administrators to inventory, deploy, patch, and continuously
manage software and content across heterogeneous hardware and OS platforms. With the HP Client
Automation Enterprise, the IT professional can:
 Automate the entire lifecycle management process from discovery, deployment, and ongoing
management through migration and retirement
 Automatically deploy and continuously manage an entire software stack (operating systems,
applications, patches, settings, and content) to a desired state
 Manage software on virtually any device, including desktops and notebooks, in a heterogeneous or
standalone infrastructure
 Manage software on most operating systems
Table 1 summarizes the features offered in HP Client Automation.
Table 1. HP Client Automation Starter, Standard, and Enterprise comparison
HP Client Automation
Starter
Standard
Enterprise
Policy-based, continuous desired-state
automation
X
Task-based automation
X
X
Hardware and software inventory
reports
X
X
X
Software distribution
Thin Clients only
X
X
OS Security Patch management,
continuous verification & repair
X
X
OS image deployment & user settings
backup & migration
Thin Clients only
X
X
Software Usage metering
X
X
BIOS Management, ProtectTools for
embedded security
X
X
X
HP SoftPaq acquisition and deployment
X
X
X
Schedule power functions and remotely
control devices
X
X
X
Real time HP hardware alerts (SMART
Drives, CMI)
X
X
X
HP managed Thin Client OS platforms
supported: Windows XPe, MS WES, CE,
HP ThinPro, Debian Linux
X
X
X
Operational dashboards
X
X