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Managing client devices effectively and efficiently • Hardware and software inventory
is a mission-critical function for today’s businesses. • Remote control
However, that challenge is being made more complex
• Seamless upgrade to Standard Edition upon
by increasingly frequent and varied security threats,
purchasing a license
more stringent availability and compliance
requirements, and a growing mobile and remote Standard Edition provides key management capabilities
workforce. This volume of change, combined with for both HP and non-HP client devices, with a focus on
what are often manual processes, can stretch quick time-to-value and ease of use. It includes:
already-thin IT resources to the breaking point.
• Software deployment
HP Client Automation software automates the • Application usage metering
management of client devices throughout the complete
• Patch management and compliance
lifecycle, regardless of their physical location, increasing
the IT organization’s ability to deal with these issues • Settings migration
while at the same reducing cost, time, and risk. • OS deployment
Recognizing that no single solution can fit all • Migration path to Enterprise Edition
environments, HP Software offers an edition of HP Enterprise Edition provides a market-leading solution for
Client Automation software that fits your environment’s managing the most complex environments. It includes:
size, complexity, and manageability requirements.
• Desired-state automation
Starter Edition, available as a free download, is designed • Heterogeneous environment support
to provide customers with key management capabilities for
• High scalability
their HP client hardware devices, including:
• Identity-based policy management
• HP PC hardware management
• HP thin-client management
Meet your client HP Client Automation Starter Edition
The Starter Edition is a free version of the product for
manageability managing HP desktops, notebooks, and workstations.
It provides hardware and software inventory, remote
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Client Automation Starter Client Automation Standard
Integrated HP hardware
management
Softpaq management
Distributed infrastructure
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Figure 1. HP Client Automation Standard provides your IT administrators with a single integrated console for hardware and software management. It
includes patch management capabilities that can automatically acquire HP Softpaqs and Microsoft security patches for deployment.
– Provides dynamic reporting, showing which – Distinguishes between applications that are actively
machines are non-compliant and at greatest risk used versus ones that are idle in the background
– Verifies the compliance to assigned patch levels, – Flexible collection options to improve data transfer,
reducing the risk of accidental removal, deletion, or storage, and reporting
corruption of patches – Provides obfuscation capabilities for hiding
personally identifiable information of end users
• Automated, flexible software distribution
– Enables group-driven distribution of applications, • Remote device management
content, and updates – Takes control of problem devices with integrated
– Performs immediate or scheduled delivery of updates remote control capabilities for more effective
troubleshooting
– Provides both “push” and “pull” deployment
options, enabling administrators to automatically – Enables off-hours deployments to powered-down
deploy required software while offering end users systems through Wake-On-LAN and power-
the flexibility to install authorized software on their down/reboot management features
own schedules • Integrated alert monitoring on HP desktops and
– Automatically completes assigned jobs to offline notebooks
machines when network access is detected – Automatically flags disruptive occurrences on
– Supports deployment of MSI applications, HP PCs for administrative action
HP Softpaqs, self-executing installation programs, – Includes reports to help pinpoint particular issues such
and delivery of multiple files and folders as chassis intrusion or hardware component failures
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Figure 2. HP Client Automation Standard provides IT administrators with detailed device reports, including hardware and software information.
Additional information, such as BIOS information, hardware alerts and device graphics are available for HP hardware.
• Automated driver and BIOS updates on HP desktops Deploy a solution that can grow with
and notebooks
your changing needs
– Compares HP systems to the latest updates available
from HP on an ongoing basis to determine whether To get a feel for the value that HP Client Automation
BIOS or driver updates are necessary can deliver for your business, you can start
immediately by downloading the free version—HP
– Automatically acquires and updates relevant
Client Automation Starter Edition. With this package,
Softpaqs for BIOS, device drivers, and applications
you can manage your HP client hardware without
• Integration with HP ProtectTools incurring additional software costs. You can then
upgrade the product to take advantage of all the
– Provides remote initialization of embedded TPM
management features within HP Client Automation
chips in HP hardware
Standard Edition by purchasing and installing a new
– Provides integration with HP ProtectTools software license key. This upgrade does not require any
for security management additional deployment of the existing management
• Integration with HP Software Out-of-Band infrastructure or agents. Your existing infrastructure,
Management Console agents, collected data, and acquired software patches
are all preserved in the migration.
– Provides support for managing PCs and notebooks
equipped with Intel iAMT firmware HP Client Automation Standard Edition provides a
– Provides capabilities for remotely managing PCs migration path to HP Client Automation Enterprise
and notebooks irrespective of the OS or the power Edition and to the broader, advanced and automated
state of the machine HP Business Service Automation solution for managing
enterprise computing devices—such as PCs, servers,
workstations, storage and network devices—on any
platform across very large, complex, heterogeneous,
and continuously changing IT environments. In addition,
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Figure 3. HP Client Automation Standard provides a migration path to the broader, advanced, and comprehensive HP Client Automation Enterprise
software for managing a wider range of enterprise computing devices.
Investment
protection
Desired-state HP Client Automation Standard Edition
automation
Software HP Client Automation Starter Edition
deployment
Scalable to hundreds of HP hardware management
thousands of devices Software usage • Softpaq management • TPM integration
Common
metering • Bios configuration • Hardware alerts
agents
Heterogeneous platform Hardware and software inventory
support Patch management
HP thin client management
infrastructure
Common
Out-of-Band management of Intel Active
Unparalleled return on OS deployment Management Technology
investment
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A complete solution Contact information
Comprehensive training To find an HP Software sales office or reseller near
HP provides a comprehensive curriculum of HP you, visit www.managementsoftware.hp.com/buy
Software and IT Service Management courses. These
For more information about HP Client Automation,
offerings provide the training you need to realize the
contact your HP representative or visit
full potential of your HP solutions, increase your
www.hp.com/go/software
network optimization and responsiveness, and achieve
better return on your IT investments.
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Technology for better business outcomes
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