Avis et détails du produit de Symantec Ghost Solution Suite

Moving from Altiris DS6.9 has been a smooth transition as the interface largely remains unchanged although a few things under the hood have changed. It didn't take very long to get a test server up and running and some of our old jobs ported across for testing builds of our latest generation of hardware. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

We've encountered a few bugs with this, particular experiencing agent crashes on clients connecting from automation. Although that said feeding back these issues has resulted in a fix so the product is becoming more and more stable. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

It's a good solution to make a standard based image with what we need. Using sysprep, we can deploy a standard drive with all software needed in no time to any user who has issues with a system that has completely gone down. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

Ghost has some issues with drivers on dell laptops. Hard to get ghost boot to work correctly via network. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

Console centralisée.

Façon simple de déployer un agent.

Beaucoup de tâches différentes et de fonctionnalités de gestion à distance.

Base de données basée sur SQL, donc vous pouvez obtenir plus d'informations avec une requête SQL.

Support Symantec en cas de problème. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

Il n'y a pas de moyen d'importer une liste d'ordinateurs qui assignent une tâche. L'importation / exportation est trop limitée, il est nécessaire d'exécuter une requête SQL externe pour obtenir un rapport. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

Ghost Solution Suite 3 highly responsive deployment tool for Windows, Mac and Linux. Coming from Altiris DS6.9, we found this a very easy product to get up and running -took about an hour.

Best feature is the live feedback with the deployment agent. This means that when you assign tasks to computers you pretty much instantly get a response and can see in the console whether the task is completed yet and what the status is. The Win32 console means no need to wait for sluggish web page refreshes.

There is something quite cool about dropping an imaging task on a lap of computers and then see them all reboot into the imaging environment, in sync, right in front of you.

With GSS3, jobs can be parameterised. When creating jobs, you can create parameters which refer directly to computer attributes in the underlying Microsoft SQL database. This allows the same job to do slightly different things on different computers. For example, you can have a script to install drivers which uses the model information to target the correct section in a driver library. Or create a task to deploy VPN software which will only proceed with the install if it finds it's being executed on a laptop.

The level of automation which can be achieved is immense. And should you get stuck, there is a lot of community support on the Symantec Connect website that I've found incredibly useful over the years. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

Symantec can drop or replace functionality with little warning. You have to read the release notes with each version update rather carefully to be sure that something you rely on hasn't been binned.

The 32-bit consoles currently do not possess an 'idle' mode. As open consoles poll the backend database rather frequently, you have to consider carefully how to manage the SQL load in environments where you give many techs console access. Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

Simplicité et intuitivité. Avec peu d'expérience, vous pouvez faire beaucoup : vérifier l'inventaire, déployer des logiciels, ajuster la configuration. Bien sûr, une imagerie bien configurée est une autre histoire... Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.

Manque d'intégration avec l'infrastructure SMP (elle était dans NS6)

Il me manque également la console basée sur le Web (elle était dans DS6) Avis collecté par et hébergé sur G2.com.