Deployment System and Multiset - Automatic System Deployment Software for Windows

SecureCentral PatchQuest Free Edition
$0 - AdventNet Inc.

SecureCentral? PatchQuest is an automated web-based patch management software for distributing and managing patches and service packs in Windows systems, in just a few simple clicks. It can run as a service and it efficiently scans your enterprise network, identifies missing software patches, distributes them to vulnerable systems and keeps them up-to-date and free from vulnerabilities, thus paving way for a more secure enterprise environment. PatchQuest is also an effective reporting tool for reporting missing security updates & packages on Red Hat Linux and Debian Linux systems. It can be used in conjunction with Linux patch deployment tools like up2date and apt-get to manage such systems. PatchQuest's optional agent architecture gives you the flexibility to manage systems effectively and provides for simplified patch management. It supports patches in the English language for operating systems and applications like Windows Vista, 2003 Server,XP Professional,2000 Professional and Server,NT 4.0 Workstation and Server,IE,IIS,SQL Server,MDAC,Media Player etc. and Red Hat Linux and Debian Linux. The 5 system small network edition is available free of cost.

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Sitekeeper
$0 - Diskeeper Corporation

Highly affordable and easy-to-use centralized patch and systems management. Stop running from machine to machine! Sitekeeper makes the essentials of systems management quick, affordable, and as easy as clicking your mouse. Automate and centralize your patch and security update management, hardware and software inventory, license compliance tracking, and software installations. No expensive, dedicated hardware or special training required-with Sitekeeper, you can automate your patch and systems management in under an hour. Sitekeeper runs on Windows® XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT and additionally, it can manage clients running Windows Me, Windows 98 and Windows 95.

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Global Network Inventory
$215 - Magneto Software

Global Network Inventory is a powerful and flexible software and hardware inventory system that can be used as an audit scanner in an agent-free and zero deployment environments. If used as an audit scanner, it only requires full administrator rights to the remote computers you wish to scan. Global Network Inventory can audit remote computers and even network appliances, including hubs, network printers, document centers, etc.
Global Network Inventory agent can also be deployed to perform regular audits initiated through the domain login script when your users log on the network. In this scenario, Global Network Inventory agent is exported to a shared network directory, and audit results are collected in audit repository directory as snap files and later merged into the main database
Global Network Inventory key features:
-Scan computers by IP range, by domain, single computers, or computers, defined by the Global Network Inventory host file.
-Reliable IP detection and identification of network appliances such as switches, network printers, document centers, hubs, and other devices.
-Scan only items that you need by customizing scan elements.
-View scan results, including historic results for all scans, individual machines, or selected number of addresses.
-Fully customizable layouts and color schemes on all views and reports. Export data to HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, and text formats.
-Customizable printing.
-Schedule inventory scans to run at specified time, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and annually. Ability to generate reports on schedule after every scan, daily, weekly, or monthly.
-Reports can be saved on disk, sent via email, or both.
-The program comes with dozens of customizable reports. New reports can be easily added through the user interface.
-Audits can be performed by deploying a scan agent through the domain login script.
-Licenses are network-based rather than user-based.

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NetStaller
$199.9 - PalickSoft

When it comes to installing (or removing) new application to multiple network computers, system administrators? heartbeat rate jumps up. Really, this operation is often times a logistical nightmare. Walking over to each computer is impractical and often impossible, so the administrators either install applications to all network computers, even if some users don?t need them, create new group policies or even go as far as creating their own custom programs or scripts. With the release of NetStaller, all of this is becoming unnecessary.
NetStaller uses Windows Installer MSI packages technology, which is included with all Windows 2000 and XP operating systems and 90% of Windows 9x PCs. All a system administrator has to do is to install NetStaller on his own computer (server) and indicate which computers have to be included in installation or removal list (or select All Computers checkbox). The program can install any application (supplied in MSI package) remotely. There is no need to walk over to each workstation, create new groups, modify group policies or pre-install any ?helper software?, like installation agents. Network users will not be aware of the process, which will be running in background. In fact, even if a user lacks the installation privileges, NetStaller will overrule it and install the program anyway by using administrator rights. The program removes PC applications in a similar manner.
NetStaller can be downloaded and tried free of charge.

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AdventNet Web NMS Trial Edition
$0 - AdventNet Inc.

AdventNet Web NMS is the industry-leading network management framework for building custom Element Management System (EMS) and Network Management System (NMS) applications.
AdventNet Web NMS is a scalable, application-centric platform that makes extensive use of state-of-the-art graphical displays to provide an intuitive and powerful network management dashboard for operations staff. By automating a number of complex, tedious, and error-prone tasks, the management application raises productivity, improves accuracy, simplifies training, and reduces costs for operation centers.
It offers a comprehensive set of FCAPS functions, provisioning, along with bundled customizable interfaces to most popular network elements, OSS systems and other management applications. Networking equipment vendors and other management solution providers rely on AdventNet Web NMS for rapid management application development and deployment.

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FinalBuilder
$379 - VSoft Technologies

FinalBuilder is a powerful Automated Build & Release Management tool which makes it easy for software developers to define and maintain a reliable and repeatable build process. FinalBuilder includes integration with version control systems, file and directory operations, iterators, source code compilers, testing tools, database systems, installation tools, as well as actions for deployment over the Internet and CD/DVD burning built in.

FinalBuilder features over 600 built in Actions which allow you to:
* Compile Applications from source code.
* Compile Setup/Installer programs.
* Work with Version Control Systems, to Get, Check Out, Check In & Label files.
* Compile Help Files
* Create & Edit INI files & Windows Registry keys
* Burn CD's & DVD's, or Create CD/DVD images (ISO images).
* Zip & UnZip files and other archive formats
* Run Automated Testing
* FTP files to/from servers
* Send Emails, post on News servers
* Schedule builds
* and a lot more!

FinalBuilder will help you to:
* Save time and money - automated builds are much quicker than manual builds, sometimes cutting something that took a day down to minutes.
* Allow anyone in the team to run a build - FinalBuilder is so easy to use, so you won't need a "build guru" team member to run all your builds.
* Improve the quality of your releases - FinalBuilder cuts the human error factor substantially, automating the boring repetitive tasks.
* Have a record of what was built when - FinalBuilder logs the output from all the tools it calls, and the logs from previous builds are archived.

FinalBuilder dramatically accelerates the software development cycle by automating the software build process. As well as increasing the speed and reliability of the build process, it also increases staff productivity by relieving them of the repetitive and error prone tasks.

Visit the FinalBuilder website for more information

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