Asset Management:

ITf(x) Asset Management provides real-time tracking of hardware, software, patches, and software license information in your enterprise IT infrastructure.

Live Asset Browser:

ITf(x) provides a unique kind of Live Server Asset Browser. ITf(x) views a server in a granular way like an entity with files, configuration entries, registry, metabase settings, COM+ settings, This is what gives ITf(x) the building blocks to model and manages application life cycle and server life cycle. With Server Asset Browser IT associates can browse the servers live. IT associates will be able to Browse Files, Registry Entries, metabase information, COM+ settings, Applications, Hot fixes, Packages, Patches, configuration files in a hierarchical way, scripts to see the output in a hierarchical way, Services. All these are live data from the server. So there will not be any need for the IT associates to telnet, ssh or rsh to the server to look at files, configurations or information.

Snapshot Assets:

ITf(x) snapshot engine allows the users to snapshot all or any of the assets. Snapshot all the server assets and use them to get reports or auditing the servers at a later time.

Audit Assets:

ITf(x) audit engine allows the users to audit all or any of the assets. Auditing can be done in two ways, First way is auditing b/n a Master Server which has gold configurations Vs the production servers, Second way is auditing b/n a Snapshot Results Vs the Live Server.

Configuration Change Management:

ITf(x) views Configuration Management as an important part of IT operations. The reason is 80% of the server or application downtime is caused by mis-configurations and manual errors. The time takes to identify the mis-configuration is very high because of the manual processes and layers to manage servers, applications, networks etc.

ITf(x) Configuration Management enables highly granular configuration of applications down to individual configuration parameters across multiple servers simultaneously. ITf(x) Configuration Management simplifies the tasks of configuring and managing servers and applications across multiple platforms of your enterprise. Each application’s complete configuration can be grouped which includes things like parameter files, user ids, variables and many others and can be managed. The application complete configuration can be snapshot as one entity and audited time to time to identify changes. This will help organizations to eliminate the need for expert administrators on specific applications.

Script and Task Automation:

ITf(x) Script Management provides a fully automated customizable solution for managing and executing data center scripts residing on multiple platforms and servers from a centralized location. This feature greatly enhances the efficiency of the data script execution by significantly reducing/eliminating the human-error in a manual script execution environment. Day to day tasks like user management, log file aggregation are automated.

Packaging and Deployment:

ITf(x) Deployment wizard provides an automated solution for packaging and deployment of files or applications across platforms in your enterprise. Package and deploy can be integrated to release tools for end to end release cycle.

Provisioning:

ITf(x) provisioning enables auto deploy of applications, operating system patches and application patches.

Cross-platform Process:

Chain Management There are many scenarios in any data center where a process has multiple sub processes and each sub process runs on different environment/ Platform/ Application. It is a daunting task to manage and track these process chains in an efficient manner. Cross Platform Process Chain management answers this challenge.

Reporting and Analytics:

ITf(x) offers powerful and flexible reporting and analytics features. This provides different views of information for both managers and administrators. This feature has been deeply integrated with all modules of ITf(x). Reports are built to suit customer requirements. ITf(x)

Tool Kit:

ITf(x) tool kit currently has the following offers File Browser, Command Exec and Script Exec features in it’s Tool Kit."

• Files.
• Packages.
• Patches.
• Processes.

• Files.
• Applications Hotfixes.
• Registry.
• COM+ Administration.
• Metabase Administration.
• Services.

• Manage files across windows/unix machines.
• Execute scripts and display results in a tabular format depending on the output of the script. The tool parses output formats like XML/INI/CSV etc, This can be extended very easily by giving a template file to the tool which is nothing but a set of regular expressions.
• View Configuration files in a hierarchical manner. Configuration files are parsed by the tool and the results displayed in a hierachical manner. The formats can be easily templated into the product. The template file is nothing but a set of rules and variables with regular expressions.

• Files
• Patches
• Packages
• Processes
• Registries
• Metabase Settings
• COM+ Object Settings
• Packages
• .NET Admin settings