PC Configuration Management

Are you balancing your system maintenance and energy saving needs?

Adaptiva Companion^TM (previously SMS Companion) has advanced scheduling capabilities that enable you to automatically switch on PC's to perform Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) or SMS 2003 tasks.

Save energy and lower your power bill

Adaptiva Companion centrally powers down PC's on schedule:

• Reduces PC energy use and related emissions
• Wakes up PC's and performs necessary maintenance tasks
• Restores power state after task completion
• Ensures an updated and secure environment without user disruption

	“With Companion’s load leveling functionality we can safely deploy packages to the whole estate in a controlled and non-disruptive process to our end users, and more importantly without causing any network issues” — Ricky Moolraj, Desktop Engineering, E. ON UK

Features and benefits

Deloyment and Integration

• Install in 3 minutes
• One client provides both power and configuration management with detailed reports.No additional requirements
• ConfigMgr or SMS console integration
• Utilizes existing ConfigMgr policy framework
• Web wake up provides users ability to remotely wake machines

Network characteristics

• Secure: No directed broadcast or unicast requirement
• High availability: Automatic 'Last Machine on Subnet' assignment.
• Load leveling: Phased distributions prevent excessive server load and network utilization.

Configuration management tasks

• Centrally perform tasks irrespective of PC's power state with Wake–on–LAN technology:
1. Software distribution – and patching
2. Hardware and Software inventory
3. Software metering

• Secure your environment: Ability to instantly shutdown, logoff or lock a computer remotely
• Run commands before shutdown: Save user data
• Wake–on–schedule: Wake PC's without using magic packets
• Service windows: Restrict ConfigMgr actions on a global or per advertisement basis during business hours. Provide updated machines with no user disruption
• Instant actions:
1. Perform 9 instant actions across a single PC or across thousands
2. E.g. Machine policy retrieval, Hardware inventory cycle

Reporting

• 30 out of the box reports
• Extendable: Schema published
• Wake on LAN performance per advertisement
• Power usage and events per collection or PC
• Daily and monthly power usage and events reports

Learn more about Companion's Power Management capabilities