[OPLINTECH] Imagining software

[Aaron J. Bedra]

I can also attest to the nice features and value that Altiris brings to
our network.  I am also on the Altiris advisory board for the ohio
Altiris users group.  We will be having a meeting actually here at
Westerville Public Library in Early september to talk about the new
release of Deployment Server 6.5 comming soon.  If you would like to
attend, please let me know.

As for licences, HP does give you a licence with each pc, but only a 30
day trial licence.

This product does run very well, but one thing to suggest if you have
not used it before is either buy some incident tickets from Altiris or
hire a consultant that knows how to set the Deployment sever up so you
don't run into PXE boot troubles.

Good Luck,

Aaron J. Bedra
IT Specialist
Westerville Public Library
614-882-7277 x114
abedra@westervillelibrary.org
http://www.westervillelibrary.org



On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 21:24 -0400, JKENZIG wrote:
> Jim
> We use Altiris Deployment solution here at CCPL and have for about 8
> years now very successfully. 
> With HP (and I think dell can offer it) when you buy a PC you get one
> image license for Altiris.
>  
> http://www.altiris.com
>  
> You only have to buy licenses for systems that you are going to leave
> the Altiris client on to manage the unit.
> (lets you shadow and push out updates) Otherwise you needn't purchase
> anything but the initial product.
>  
> You can download a free working demo from altiris and check it out and
> I would be happy to offer any tips or assistance you need in getting
> it going. You could even stop out some day since you are so close and
> have a look at how we are using it if your like. The hardest part is
> getting the boot CD going. But ghost is the same way. 
>  
> The other great altiris product I love that I have mentioned here is
> Altiris Protect.  It is a simple lock down product like goback that
> restores a system to the same state by simply logging off and back on.
>  
> Regards,
> Jim Kenzig
> Network Manager 
> Cuyahoga County Public Library
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: oplintech-admin@oplin.org on behalf of Jim Lack
> Sent: Thu 8/18/2005 8:31 PM
> To: oplintech@oplin.org
> Subject: [OPLINTECH] Imagining software
> 
> 
> We're looking for an imaging software solution.  So far, we've looked
> into Ghost and ImageCast.  We're a little confused about how many
> licenses we need to purchase.  Do we really need to purchase a license
> for EVERY computer that we have (90+)?  What are the odds that we will
> have to image or restore every computer on our network?  If we only
> have ten different builds of computers, i.e Dell270's, Dell 280's,
> generic brand X, generic brand Y, ect... could we get away with only
> purchasing ten licenses?  How do other sites handle this issue?
> Please respond.
>  
> Jim Lack
> Network Associate
> Rocky River Public Library