IDEAL Dispatch : Characteristics
- Remote running of scripts and programs
- Allows a script file to be run locally or remotely: .bat, .cmd, VB Script, .msi, .exe, .com, etc.
- Possibility of entering arguments
- Possibility of attaching files
- Support for Windows commands
- Actions with VBScript
- Allows a VBScript file to be run locally or remotely
- Assistant of deployment and simplified execution of the VBScript files (.vbs)
- Actions with service pack or software update
- Allows a software update to be run locally or remotely
- Assistant of deployment and simplified installation for a service pack or a software update by automatic detection of the installer engine (Update, Hotfix or IExpress)
- Actions with MSI
- Allows a MSI file to be run locally or remotely
- Assistant of deployment, to install, repair, remove and announce a MSI file (.msi)
- Actions with files
- Allows copying, moving, deletion, editing and printing of both files and directories
- Possibility of using environmental variables for specifying source and destination paths: %APPDATA%, %HomeDrive%, %HomePath%, %ProgramFiles%, %SystemDrive%, etc.
- Actions with systems
- Makes it possible to close a session, restart, shut-down, lock, put into extended stand-by, and cancel a direct action
- Possibility of displaying an alert message to warn the user for a certain time in seconds
- Makes it possible to force applications to close without warning
- Selecting computers
- Makes it possible to select client workstations and servers based on their type: All computers, All servers, All workstations, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server, or by name using their NetBios or Active Directory name or even with their IP address
- Application of filters
- Predefined filters: these are filters whose values and conditions are already filled in: OS version, OS type, version of Internet Explorer, Service Pack, processor, language, computer
- Customized filters: you can create your own filters from the registry. By default, a certain number of filters with registry data are offered to you. A registry explorer is available to you
- You can apply as many filters as you like
- It is possible to modify the interaction between filters by creating a filter equation: Filter1 AND Filter2; Filter1 OR Filter2
- Possibility of testing the filtering to estimate which computers from the selection will remain after filtering
- Generation of results reports
- Lists the installation and running reports for each action on each machine
- Use of icons in the list to quickly identify the type of action
- Makes it possible to find out with a simple click at all times: the date and time of the beginning and end of installation and running, the list of computers involved, successful or failed actions on each computer, the time and the cause of a failure
- Possibility of archiving installed and run distributions reports.
- Possibility of creating sub-folders in order to classify distributions reports.
- Simplified rescheduling
- Possibility of easily copying, modifying or scheduling a distribution with a right click, using the menu bar or using drag-and-drop
- By simply clicking on a distribution, an action or a computer, you can reschedule: the whole distribution, all the actions on a set of computers, only the failed actions on the set of computers, all the actions but only on the computers where there has been a failure, the failed actions on a set of computers
- Easy to use
- Intuitive interface and documentation in English and localized versions
- Management when adding a distribution server and when creating a new distribution through displaying messages, checking the validity of data....
- Storing usage data in the memory, such as the size and chosen order of columns, the names of valid servers, start-up account...
- Display of the distribution summary in literal mode.
- Distribution scheduling
- Schedule an existing distribution
- Display all scheduled distributions
- Edit, rename, run, and delete a scheduled distribution
