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