Suggestion to make opsi-ver 4.0.2 compete against others

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barun mukhopadhyay
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Registriert: 18 Feb 2013, 11:33

Suggestion to make opsi-ver 4.0.2 compete against others

Beitrag von barun mukhopadhyay »

Hello

I have installed opsi-ver 4.0.2 , under VM , in UBUNTU , after downloading from opsi free dpwnload site . I have tested 3/4 other remote asset management softwares , they have some features which are highly appreciated by lots of clients and I am listing them as follows :

1 ) Auto Discovery of clients in the network : this means that if I input an ip-range , then all the clients within that ip range should be visible -- but the client agent software may or may not be installed in the clients pc/laptops ; even if the client agent software is not installed on the client , then also it should be auto discovered on the LAN / WAN .

2 ) The clients USB port need to be blocked -- some times the USB port's mass storage facility need to be blocked but access to internet through USB data card need to be on .

3 ) An inventory of total hardware and software is required for all the clients present in the LAN/WAN ; aggregate is required and not individual clientwise .

4 ) Patch management , software deplyment / new software installation other that OS installation , under WINDOWS environment is required and is available in other remote asset management softwares .

If the above 4 nos of items are available , then your software will have very good edge over similar Enterprise Remote Asset Management software .

Pls have some consideration on this .

best regards

barun
pandel
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Registriert: 25 Jan 2013, 16:47

Re: Suggestion to make opsi-ver 4.0.2 compete against others

Beitrag von pandel »

Hi Barun,

I have som suggestions, from the bottom to the top of your remarks:

4) From my point of view, this is exactly the opsi domain! Patch management, software deployment and so. Perhaps I don't understand, what you wanted to say.
3) Aggregation is possible. You can easily define a search query in opsi-configed to gather all the required information, once you're clients have sent their inventory to the opsi server.
2) Think different. opsi is not (and should not be, from my point of view) the right tool here. Have a look at this, i. e.: http://www.netwrix.com/usb_blocker_bene ... tures.html
1) Ok, might be a nice feature to have, but what's your exact reason for having such a feature? To see which clients are 'opsi'fied and which are not? If you only want to see the complete list of network devices, then there is a whole bunch of software to choose from.
A very cool software with a lot of features for example is this: http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/
But also http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en or http://www.open-audit.org/
Might even be a solution for n°2 also...

I think, many "Windows" people have a problem. They want THE ONE software, that can do everything. But why not use some more products, that can even better solve the different problems. As I said, think different ;-)

Greetz,
Holger
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