It's been a crazy couple weeks at work – riddle with problems and challenges. We've refined our patching process for desktops and will finally start using Radia to distribute them next week. It's been a long haul – six months or more of testing, tweaking, etc. Now it's time to play catch [...]
The Net.Works folks are back at Learfield this week assisting us with a Patch Manager upgrade for Radia. In between all the questions, brain storming, and seriousness of what’s going on; we try to have a good time. Still pretty new to Radia we struggle to wrap our heads around this extremely flexible [...]
One of the tasks this week has been playing catch up with the installation of Windows XP service pack 2. Quite awhile back we dumped SMS 2003 – it was just too difficult to use and unpredictable. And up to a few weeks ago we went without any real means of deploying software, [...]
Joel, Christie, and I spent the entire week locked in a conference room assisting, watching, and listening while Grant from Net.Works installed a portion of our network management software; Radia. Radia is HP's answer to managing the desktop/server/software environment and is a recent addition the HP Openview solution. And it represents a rather [...]
Joel and I been evaluating Network Management Systems (NMS) including Desktop Management since June. We've looked at Microsoft's SMS and MOM, CA's Unicenter, LANDesk, and HP Openview – OVO, NNM, and Radia – we've been pretty busy. So after the last 6 months, we're both convinced that HP has the best solution we've [...]