| Installation and Licensing
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- Prerequisites automatically installed if missing
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- Installed and running in 30 minutes or less
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- Licenses available for a variety of feature sets
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| Ease of Administration
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- Simple to use: Can use with no training
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- Intuitive, easy-to- understand interface
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- Perform patch and asset scans within minutes of product installation
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- View patch status immediately after completion of scan
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- Easy-to-perform patch remediation
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- Initiate scans automatically or
on-demand
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- Scalable – can be used with small or large number of machines
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| Useability in Small, Medium and Large Organizations
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- Works with multiple operating system vendors (Microsoft, Red Hat and CentOS)
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- Works with multiple Microsoft operating systems
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- Works with multiple software products
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- Works with multiple product vendors (Microsoft and
non-Microsoft)
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- Works with multiple machine types (servers, workstations, tablets, ATMs, etc.)
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- Works well with multiple networks
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- Flexible – able to grow with the organization
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- Can perform tasks agentlessly from a central console
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- Can perform tasks using agents installed on target machines
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| Patch Scanning Criteria, Accuracy and Security |
- Supports all current Microsoft operating systems
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- Supports all current Red Hat and CentOS operating systems
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- Supports all popular Microsoft applications
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- Supports large number of non-Microsoft applications
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- Can scan for both security and non-security patches
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- Can scan Microsoft’s security tools
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- Scans for both patches and service packs
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- Real-time patch validation (via XML file)
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- Patch supersedence (superseded patches are not presented)
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- Detailed patch analysis and validation via file version + registry keys
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- Digitally signed files for security during the patch process
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- Provides detailed information about each detected patch
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- Supports the use of custom patches
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- Supports patches for a variety of languages
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- Can group patches by criticality, then scan for & deploy by group
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| Control Over How Target Machines are Patched |
- Ability to identify missing patches
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- Ability to fix incorrectly patched machines
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- Can deploy individual patches or multiple patches
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- Can deploy based on user-defined criticality
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- Automatically deploy missing patches after a scan
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- Scheduled patch deployment options
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| Virtual Machine Support (Online and Offline VMs) |
- Discover, inventory, and patch online virtual machines hosted on workstations
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- Discover, inventory, and patch offline virtual machines hosted on workstations
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- Discover, inventory, and patch online virtual machines hosted on ESX server
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- Discover, inventory, and patch offline virtual machines hosted on ESX server
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- Manage and track vCenter Servers and ESXi hypervisors
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- Scan and deploy patches to managed and unmanaged ESXi hypervisors
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| Application Control
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| Asset Management |
- Discover and catalog software assets
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- Discover and catalog hardware assets
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- Discover and catalog virtual assets
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- All virtual machine information available in one location
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- Ability to initiate asset scans automatically or on-demand
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- Can schedule agentless or agent-based asset scans
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| Power Management |
- Ability to shut down machines
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- Ability to restart machines
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- Ability to put machines into sleep state
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- Ability to put machines into hibernate state
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- Ability to send Wake-on-LAN (WoL) request
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- Ability to initiate power tasks automatically or on-demand
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- Can schedule agentless or agent-based power management tasks
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| PowerShell Scripts |
- Access to free scripts and all pre-defined scripts provided by Ivanti
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- Execute scripts against target machines
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- Execute scripts from the console
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- Create PowerShell templates
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- Share your custom scripts with the ITScripts community
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- Execute scripts immediately
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- Schedule script execution to run at some time in the future
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| Reports |
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- Large number of reports available
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- Large scope of reports, from enterprise view to machine-level detail
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- Indicates degree of compliance with patch policies
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- Export results to other formats
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- Ability to filter results
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- Find the exact information you want using advanced filtering
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- Send reports automatically via e-mail
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| Application Program Interface (API)
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- Support for both REST API and PowerShell API
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- Interact with different systems in your environment
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- Script a sequence of complex events that contain dependencies
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- Perform bulk operations or process list inputs from other systems
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- Programmatically stage patch deployments or initiate patch downloads
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| Product Documentation and Support |
- Robust, online Help system
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- Product documentation available online
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- RSS feeds that provide security-related news & important messages
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