PC hardware and software configuration management solution, which is
designed to significantly reduce the costs and complexity of managing PCs.
HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager 2.0, or Premium Edition, offers mediumsized
organizations and departments within larger enterprises a reliable, easy-to-use and
cost-effective PC configuration management solution. The latest version offers significant
new manageability features across multi-vendor, Windows®-based client products, and
also adds supports for HP thin clients.
In addition, HP announced that for the first time all commercial HP notebooks, desktops
and workstations will begin shipping with a pre-loaded HP OpenView Configuration
Management agent. This expands the company’s client management portfolio to help
further drive down PC manageability costs.
“Today’s announcement demonstrates how HP uses its breadth of offerings to deliver
tightly integrated hardware and software solutions,” said Jeri Callaway, vice president
and general manager, Commercial Solutions, Personal Systems Group, HP. “By preloading
an HP OpenView agent across our client-based products, HP is offering the most
comprehensive PC management solution portfolio in the industry.”
Enhanced manageability with cost-effective upgrade path
HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager offers IT administrators a quick-to-deploy
solution with maximum out-of-the-box functionality, including discovery and inventory,
operating system deployment and migration, patch management, software deployment,
software usage metering, remote control and HP hardware configuration management.
“As client-based devices continue to proliferate in the mid-market, the need to control the
cost and complexity of managing changes to these devices has become a critical
concern,” said Ronni Colville, research vice president, Gartner. “Customers of all sizes
are seeking solutions that simplify and automate configuration changes, while offering
the ability to cost-efficiently grow and expand to keep pace with shifting business
requirements.”
New and enhanced manageability features of HP OpenView Client Configuration
Manager include:
• HP hardware management – integrated management capabilities for HP hardware,
including BIOS (basic input/output system) settings management, automated BIOS
and driver updates, alert monitoring and power management;
• Operating system image deployment – for remotely deploying and migrating
operating systems;
• User setting migration – providing automated capture and deployment of operating
system, applications and user settings among different PCs or operating systems;
• Software usage metering – enabling IT to accurately track software usage across the
enterprise to optimize software licensing costs;
• Integration with HP ProtectTools – for remotely initializing embedded Trusted Platform
Module chips and remotely deploying and managing the HP ProtectTools software
application; and
• Increased scalability – offering twice the scalability of the previous version.
In addition, a free add-on to HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager provides
support for Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT), enabling customers to take
advantage of powerful new remote management and diagnostics capabilities built into
PCs with the upcoming Intel vPro technology.
Since the capabilities offered by Intel’s AMT are based in hardware and firmware, HP
OpenView can offer technicians this functionality even if a PC is powered off, its
operating system is down, or its software agents are missing. These capabilities enable
IT administrators to improve the efficiency of help desk services, shift more workload offhours
to avoid interference with users’ productivity, and deliver a better service overall.
HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager also helps to lower the barrier of entry for
customers on the way to becoming an Adaptive Enterprise by providing an easy
migration path to other, more fully featured, highly automated and scalable solutions in
the portfolio.
By providing a strong foundation for future requirements, the solution allows customers
seeking quick time to value and ease of use to invest in the entry-priced offering today
and then cost-effectively upgrade as their needs evolve.
“HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager provides an affordable, integrated
solution that is easy to install, implement and use,” said Deb Traub, vice president,
OpenView Products, HP. “The compelling new manageability features delivered by HP
OpenView Client Configuration Manager 2.0 offer customers a powerful solution with a
cost-efficient growth path toward the full strength of the HP OpenView portfolio.”
Pre-loaded agents accelerates time-to-value
HP also announced that an HP OpenView Configuration Management agent will now
come pre-loaded on all commercial HP notebooks, desktops and workstations. The
offering reduces the costs associated with managing PCs by eliminating the time spent
by IT administrators to deploy agents on machines prior to managing them.
The pre-loaded agent allows customers to quickly take advantage of the free-of-charge
HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager Basic Edition to automatically detect HP
devices and perform hardware management operations on HP client-based products.
Basic Edition customers can seamlessly upgrade the software to HP OpenView Client
Configuration Manager Premium Edition to take advantage of the full range of hardware
and software management functionality offered by the solution.
More information about the HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager and HP
OpenView management software is available at www.hp.com/go/openview.
Pricing and availability
HP OpenView Client Configuration Manager 2.0 is expected to be available directly
from HP and its channel partners in October. Starting U.S. list price for the Premium
Edition is $75 per seat license.(1) HP OpenView Configuration Management agent is
shipping today with select HP notebooks, desktops and workstations.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally.
The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home
computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2006,
HP revenue totaled $90.0 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is
available at www.hp.com.
1 Estimated U.S. street price. Actual price may vary.
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