Absolute Manage helps you manage the computers and mobile devices in your company:
• Collect a wide range of technical information on the devices for overview reports or in-depths analyses of individual devices.
• Control computers, terminating troublesome processes,executing utility scripts, restarting computers, and much more.
• Manage the configuration and security of mobile devices.
• Automate software installations by just specifying the software
that is to be installed on each computer or in a workgroup and letting Absolute Manage do the rest. You can even reinstall the operating system or control the distribution of vendors’ operating system patches.
• Distribute in-house software to mobile devices.
• Configure mobile device settings.
• Locate mobile devices.
• Monitor software installations and usage, to always make sure that you stay within license limits (both installation-based and concurrent use licenses) and to know just what your licensing needs are.
There are several components in the Absolute Manage system:
• An agent is installed on each managed device. Agents receive commands from Absolute Manage and carry them out on the local computer, sending back information when required. There is a minimal local interface to specify some information.
• A central server acts as the hub of the system: On instructions from you, it sends out commands to the agents, collects the information they send back, and stores it in its database.
There is usually one server per managed network; multiple servers are possible. Servers have no user interface of their own; they are managed by the admin application.
Absolute Manage effortlessly handles hierarchies of servers and specialized servers for, e.g., software distribution.
• An optional MDM server handles the management of mobile devices. It is tightly coupled to the main Absolute Manage Server and controlled from the same admin application.
• The admin application is your command center for the system. You use it both to control the server and – via the server – the agents, and to display the required information. The admin application can be installed on as many computers as desired.
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