Efficient endpoint management starts with IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager

Why Switch?

SaaS Endpoint Visibility and Security with Tivoli Endpoint ManagerIt’s never an easy decision to switch out existing tools for a new one, but high operating costs and functional needs can sometimes make it necessary. IBM Tivoli® Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix® technology, can significantly reduce the barriers by minimizing switching costs, disruptions, and the new-tool learning curve. Customers have seen significant cost savings consolidating many tools down to the single Tivoli Endpoint Manager architecture.

What makes the Tivoli Endpoint Manager architecture better?

The IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager architecture sets out to solve a problem: Why do most systems and security management tools just not work as promised in the real world across the entire enterprise? Long before the first product release, the company spent years developing a platform that could be used to successfully deliver any type of content, command, or query to any computer, anywhere. It had to operate in real-world conditions and be easy to implement, fast, and accurate.

Tivoli Endpoint Manager’s patented technology distributes computing power to the devices themselves, using the intelligent Tivoli Endpoint Manager agent to provide a level of visibility and control not possible in legacy solutions. This level of innovation translates into significant advantages in speed, flexibility, and scalability, while reducing the infrastructure and training costs associated with traditional systems and security management.

Each agent acts independently and simultaneously to process policies, report changes, or execute actions—pulling only relevant content from the management server as needed. This parallel processing, combined with the performance optimization of our agent code, results in rapid assessment and remediation cycles, real-time reporting, continuous enforcement, ability to control off-network devices, and minimal network chatter.

Benefits Of An Intelligent-Agent Architecture:

• Easy deployment and management. Tivoli Endpoint Manager can be installed in just days, even across very large or highly distributed environments, and can then be used to remove outdated tools quickly and cleanly
• Pervasive visibility. Distributed scanning and deep agent inspection makes it possible for operators to see anything about any computer anywhere
• Extensibility. No need to roll out additional software or hard-ware when purchasing additional functionality from Tivoli Endpoint Manager open database schema and SOAP APIs also makes it easy to integrate with other IT tools
• Speed. Extremely specific ad-hoc queries can be executed and answered across a globally distributed environment in minutes
• Superior control. Secure, manage, and report on endpoints through any type of connection: WAN, LAN, 56K, satellite, public Internet
• Scalability. Support for up to 250,000 endpoints from a single management server
• Low profile. Agent and query language have all been optimized for near-invisible impact to network bandwidth and endpoint performance
• Real-time reporting. With the agents reporting any change in status, there is no need to initiate a new scan to know the current state of your assets
• Continuous compliance. Agents continuously monitor for compliance and can be set to automatically reapply any policy, patch, or misconfiguration
• Breadth of coverage. Cross-platform support for Windows, Mac, UNIX, or Linux—whether physical or virtual, fixed or mobile