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| General Estate Management | ||||||||
| Label Machines |  | | | |||||
| Your administrator can now Label computers across the Estate with text names and description that are appropriate to your business. Descriptions like: Departments, Location, Asset No., Telephone Extensions, Computer Type, and Ownership. The list is infinite and allows you to immediately identify and target your business populations for any reason. | ||||||||
| User Messaging | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian provides a simple one way messaging function for the administrator to communicate with any number of computer users for what ever reason suits the business. | ||||||||
| Prompt user for information | | |  | |||||
| Sometimes it helps to be able to ask questions of the person sitting at a computer within your estate. For example, computers inevitably end up moving around your organisation due to relocations and your administrator may need to identify or reassign ownership. So why not ask the users of any number of computers to enter simple details such as current location, telephone extension or simply to confirm the asset number written on the box! The user prompt takes seconds to set up and responses (or not) are identifiable by the administrator immediately. * With EstateGuardianenterpise the user prompts can be made into multiple choice question allowing for even easier filtering. | ||||||||
| Monitor machine performance | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian monitoring captures almost all the physical properties of all your computers. Everything from information about processors/memory to software/hardware running and installed. This information is in addition to your business labels and allows your administrator to identify, target and apply some action to any number of computers according to what every criteria your business demand. Any best of all the whole process can take seconds from identification to action, no other product can do this. | ||||||||
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| Application Deployment | ||||||||
| Software Installation | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian uses Microsoft's Installer technology (MSI) to install software across your computer estate. The installation file is distributed to your estates computers using the well-established FTP protocol. Using the EstateGuardian's unique real-time information retrieval system means that you don't have to wait for database updates before you can be sure that the targeted computers are running any new software. | ||||||||
| Software Installation (using multiple tiers) | | | | |||||
| With larger computer populations it might not be desirable for the entire computer estate to receive their installation information from a single point. Using EstateGuardian, installations can first be rolled out to a number of different locations suited to perceived network bottlenecks. Then with a single instruction your entire computer estate can start receiving its download from the closest point on the network. Using the multi-tiered approach can mean that hundreds of computers scattered across the world can all be upgraded in real time in minutes. * With EstateGuardianenterpise when 3+ tier installations are expected, a wizard is available to reduce the amount of time to configure these complex business rules. | ||||||||
| Software Removal | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian can remove unauthorised or redundant software as easily as it allows you to install software. The difficulty of software removal is locating the software in the first place and this is where EstateGuardian's unique filtering techniques mean you can do this job with ease. | ||||||||
| Transmission throttling | | | | |||||
| Using known FTP technologies to transfer the installation package means that you can use your FTP servers to throttle downloads to machines on slower connections. | ||||||||
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| License Management | ||||||||
| Monitor concurrent usage | | | | |||||
| Using EstateGuardian's active views you can create warnings that immediately inform you when a process is being executed anywhere across your estate. By setting a "number of copies" threshold you have created Runtime licence monitoring. Not only can you see how many copies of an application are being run you can also monitor version information. You are then at liberty to take any action that is appropriate. | ||||||||
| Monitor installed seats | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian's can tell you when, where and how many copies of installed software exists across your estate. Incorporate this with the warning function and you have created your own installed licence monitoring system unique to your business. The information about install application is compressive and can be used to isolate older versions of software for upgrading. | ||||||||
| Database required |  | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian's active views mean that you do not need to run a database to be able to view what is happening on your estate. * Computers that are not currently connected to your estate will not yield realtime licensing information. However, if you wish to audit all software then this can be part of the EG Software Inventory procedure. | ||||||||
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| Hardware Inventory | ||||||||
| Target Plug and Play Devices | | | | |||||
| Using EstateGuardian you stores information about all plug and play devices attached to your computers across your estate. Alternatively, if you only want to store information about specific hardware to optimise network load, this is also a possible. | ||||||||
| Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) |  | | | |||||
| WMI is a Microsoft technology that allows an administrator to extract additional information, such as BIOS details. Using an additional process available with the Enterprise version, the WMI values can be mapped into properties that EstateGuardian can use for filtering or data extraction. | ||||||||
| Storage : Access Database | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian can extract information from your estate into a Microsoft Access Database. An Access Database is created s part of the installation that includes functions to allow for data to be extracted from audit tables. * EstateGuardian10 is limited to only operate with an Access Database. | ||||||||
| Storage : ODBC Database | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian can to extract information from your estate into any ODBC data source. Depending on your database design you can control how much information is directed into the database for later analysis. | ||||||||
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| Software Inventory | ||||||||
| Target Installed Applications | | | | |||||
| Using EstateGuardian you can store information about all or specifically named applications that are installed, along with their respective version information. This means you can direct as much or as little information into your database as your business requires. | ||||||||
| Target Running Processes | | | | |||||
| Using EstateGuardian you can store information about all or specifically named applications that are being used, and how long they are in use in your estate, as well as being able to capture respective version information. This means you can direct as much or as little information into your database as your business requires or as your network can accommodate. | ||||||||
| Storage : Access Database | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian can extract information from your estate into a Microsoft Access Database. An Access Database is created s part of the installation that includes functions to allow for data to be extracted from audit tables. * EstateGuardian10 is limited to only operate with an Access Database. | ||||||||
| Storage : ODBC Database | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian can to extract information from your estate into any ODBC data source. Depending on your database design you can control how much information is directed into the database for later analysis. | ||||||||
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| Special Features | ||||||||
| Expression Language | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian comes with its own comprehensive expression language which is used to create views of your computer estate and filter your computer estate for targeting. The language is similar to a spread sheet cell expression and contains functions and access to all computer properties via "Tags". | ||||||||
| Automation | | | | |||||
| When a well-known event is expected such as an unauthorised application has just been run or installed or a computer has just joined the estate with out-of-date software; EstateGuardian can set up a rule which executes an action automatically to address these business issues as you choose. For example to automatically update software or uninstall an application. | ||||||||
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| Security | ||||||||
| Network Packet Encryption | | | | |||||
| EstateGuardian uses ParaTeks' unique and powerful transport protocol, which has a proven track record of providing secured network traffic for government organisations. ParaTeks' transport protocol uses known cryptographic protocols using key information unique to each customer that is bound as part of the installation process. No one will be able access or interfere with your estate without your organisational key. | ||||||||
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