About System Center Essentials
System Center Essentials 2007 is a management solution designed for the IT system administrator in a medium-sized organization (up to 30 servers and 500 clients). Using the Essentials 2007 single console design, IT system administrators can easily secure, update, monitor, and track their entire IT environment.
In addition, Essentials 2007 includes many predefined reports that display various types of information and preloaded Management Packs to help monitor common operating system components, services, and applications.
Essentials 2007 enables you to centrally manage Microsoft Windows–based servers and other computers and network devices in your organization. The following are just a sample of the tasks you can perform:
Monitor the health of computers and network devices. For more information about monitoring, see About Computers, Computer Groups and Discovery.
Centrally manage updates, track installation progress, and troubleshoot problems by using the update management feature. For more information about update management, see Update Management in System Center Essentials.
Centrally deploy software, track progress, and troubleshoot problems by using the software deployment feature. For more information about software deployment, see Software Deployment in System Center Essentials.
Collect and examine computer hardware and software inventory by using the inventory feature. For more information about inventory, see Inventory in System Center Essentials.