ADMLink ESD

ADMLink ESD (Electronic Software Distribution) enables Administrators to automate process of Software Installation, Version upgrade and have up-do-date information on software Inventory.
This product is about ease-of-use and saving your time. It is not an easy task to roll out an application in your enterprise. If you spend most of your day going from desk to desk with a CD to install or upgrade desktop software, this product is for you. It gives you control on what and where needs to be installed, what prerequisites each software has, and manage whole process from one single console. Scheduled your installation jobs for after-hours or for immediate execution. View installation logs from same console. Report to your boss that rollout is completed. Have time for other things.
Defining Product Catalog
- Ability to define multi-level hierarchy of Products, versions and multiple configurations;
- Defining Hardware and Software Dependencies, including target OS;
- Separation of Product definition from Package definition (copy of the installation package);
- Support for Before and After scripts;
- Extensive scripting language to customize and reuse configurations;
- Support for MSI-based installs, setup-based installs and script-based installs.

Working with computer groups
- Ability to combine computers to groups (e.g., Sales);
- Nested groups (e.g. Sales Support in Sales);
- Support for dynamic groups based on inventory information (Queries). E.g, all computers from a domain.
Job execution
- Immediate or scheduled at particular time;
- Select one or many products to install;
- Computer Groups or Queries as target;
- Progress status;
- Log from each computer.
ESD Server-Agent infrastructure
- TCP/IP, HTTP or FTP;
- Supports multiple Repository locations to optimize disc usage;
- Multiple modes of install to optimize network usage.
Inventory Integration
- Integration with ADMLink Network Inventory (NI).