ADMLink ESD

Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) in general refers to the practice of allowing System Administrators to install software products across organization electronically (and primarily in unattended mode) as opposed to receiving physical media and visiting target computers with this media.
ADMLink ESD enables Administrators to load products from media provided by software vendor, define standard configurations and schedule installs across group of computers at the same time.
You can use inventory information collected by ADMLink Network Inventory (NI) to define software and hardware dependencies or to specify target computers for your installation.
Here are some key features of "ADMLink ESD":
Defining Product Catalog
ï¿­ Ability to define multi-level hierarchy of Products, versions and multiple configurations
ï¿­ Defining Hardware and Software Dependencies, including target OS
ï¿­ Separation of Product definition from Package definition (copy of the installation package)
ï¿­ Support for Before and After scripts
ï¿­ Extensive scripting language to customize and reuse configurations
ï¿­ Support for MSI-based installs, setup-based installs and script-based installs
Working with computer groups
ï¿­ Ability to combine computers to groups (e.g., Sales Department)
ï¿­ Nested groups (e.g. Sales Support in Sales Department)
ï¿­ Same computer might belong to different groups
ï¿­ Support for dynamic groups based on inventory information (Queries). E.g, all computers from a particular domain.
Job execution
ï¿­ Immediate or scheduled at particular time
ï¿­ Select one or many products to install
ï¿­ Computer Groups or Queries as target
ï¿­ Progress status
ï¿­ Log from each computer
ESD Server-Agent infrastructure
ï¿­ Different methods to connect ESD Agent to the Servers Repository
ï¿­ TCP/IP
ï¿­ HTTP
ï¿­ FTP
ï¿­ Supports multiple Repository locations to optimize disc usage
ï¿­ Multiple modes of install to optimize network usage
Inventory Integration
ï¿­ Integration with ADMLink Network Inventory (NI)
Limitations:
ï¿­ 15 days trial