Overview

Bytes Discovery Deployment and Diagnostics tool is an advanced tool that allows system administrator to manage their software throughout there network.
Primarily used to deploy software packages easily using a one-click push process and also to obtain information about software that has been deployed previously.
Its main function was to deploy software agents using a variety of ways, which were cost-effective and didn't require any pre-requisite deployment technologies like Group Policy, ZENWorks, Alteris etc... and report their status on machines that they were deployed to.

Features

  • Discovery computers on the network using variety of methods:
  • Active Directory lookup
  • Legacy Windows and or NT Domains
  • By IP Address
  • Determin the health of Bytes Discovery agents deployed on computers
  • Deploy Software to discovered computers remotely
  • MSI or Exe deployment
  • Update the client components
  • Retrieve communications logs from clients
  • Remove Client Software
  • Remotely read client logs and XML onfiguration files.
  • Export to Excel
  • Detailed view of Active Directory structure

Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_deployment