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  1. December 23rd, 2003, 09:04 AM #1
    jeffbrown
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    SMS vs What

    What are some alternatives to MS SMS?
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  2. December 23rd, 2003, 09:38 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by jeffbrown
    What are some alternatives to MS SMS?
    Could you please elaborate a bit? Perhaps its my pre-coffee state, but this seems analogous to something like 'What are some alternatives to Java?'.
    Common sense, isn't...
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  3. December 23rd, 2003, 11:27 AM #3
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    IBM's Tivoli (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/tivoli/) and HP's OpenView (http://www.openview.hp.com/about/index.html) come to mind. But those may be overkill what what you need.

    If you're just looking to inventory your netwoked PC's, take a look here for some options: http://www.winappslist.com/network-a..._inventory.htm

    Even belarc has a solution available for that.

    Where SMS shines is in its ability to deploy patches, security updates and software to remote systems.
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  4. December 24th, 2003, 11:23 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by jeffbrown
    What are some alternatives to MS SMS?
    take a look at Zenworks....

    http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/

    and a third party evaluation and discussion of Zen as an alternative to SMS.

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/...nterwin_1.html
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  5. December 24th, 2003, 03:03 PM #5
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    I wonder if MOM is going to replace SMS.
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  6. December 26th, 2003, 12:18 PM #6
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    Don't know yet, but MOM and SMS can both function together - MOM being "added into" the SMS architecture.
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  7. January 1st, 2004, 08:39 AM #7
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    We use a product called Altiris - its ok if your network is good.
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  8. March 4th, 2004, 09:43 AM #8
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    For simply auditing workstations, to **** with paying for some half baked solution, use AIDA32 !!

    My company has purchased Altiris, but yikes, it is taking us forever and 3 days to implement!
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