Paragon Deployment Manager 8.5: automation of system installation on several PCs

19th April 2007

Paragon Software Group Company has introduced Paragon Deployment Manager 8.5 â€“ a new product, developed for the deployment of operating systems and additional applications on a large number of new computers simultaneously. Deployment Manager will interest, first of all, system administrators, integrators, IT-consultants and computer manufacturers. The main component of the product is Multicast Deployment Console. It is the component by which the operating systems are installed simultaneously at a large number of PC. Centralized control over the operations is carried out by Deployment Console. With the help of the console user can launch, trace and control all deployment processes of operating systems. Among features of Deployment Manager there are: Exact taking of operating system image; Using wizards on sessions deploy, which makes easier the work with complex operations; The use of network architecture multicast for simultaneous deploying of operating systems from one checkpoint to the hundreds of machines; The ability of round-robin deployment which allows you to connect new computers at any process stage; The ability of controlling the entire process of deployment at its any stage; The ability of configuration through scripts. Paragon Deployment Manager has PXE (Preboot Execution Environment), which allows you to start deployment process remotely. In the absence of a network you can move images over the installation disks with operating systems based on Linux, Paragon DOS or Windows PE. The detailed information on the product is available on the official site.