Through the central Altiris console, IT administrators can remotely and simultaneously perform a variety of tasks across many different groups of IT assets. These functions include:

• Detailed hardware/software inventories
• Compliance scanning and remediation (for SOX, FISMA, HIPAA, etc.)
• Software license tracking
• Bare metal system deployment or migration
• Remote control
• Device discovery and topology mapping
• Extensive, graphical reporting across a configuration management database (CMDB)
• Deployment of patches and updates
• Deployment of software packages
• Helpdesk management (incident creation/management,
• Service and asset management
• Contract management
• And many more