This page highlights the design goals and differences between XIA Configuration Server v6 and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 R2 to help you determine which product best meets your business requirements or whether your organisation should use both products to complement each other.
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XIA Configuration Server is a dedicated network inventory and documentation tool designed for complex network infrastructures providing a single point of reference for an organisation's technical information and reporting. This information can be invaluable in:
The system supports detailed, agentless and automated data collection for the following target systems:
In addition to the automated agent discovery, the following can be documented manually:
The system supports the following global features:
The system includes over 100 built in reports.
System Center was originally released in 1994 as Systems Management Server (SMS) and provides an array of endpoint management tools. Though these are used for both client and servers, many of these are focused on client device management including:
The inventory capability of System Center Configuration Manager is primarily designed around Windows and Unix workstations and servers and includes only basic hardware and software installation information
The following capabilities are supported in XIA Configuration Server v6 but not in System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2
The following shows the list of reports built into SCCM 2012 R2:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn581998.aspx
XIA Configuration is a dedicated inventory and documentation tool providing read-only access to configuration information.
It provides a much greater breadth and depth of inventory capabilities including support for Microsoft Exchange, VMware, Active Directory, SQL server and other enterprise systems and is designed to co-exist with System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 without the need to deploy additional agents to target systems.
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 provides only limited inventory and audit capabilities though does however provide other functionality such as software deployment, endpoint protection and updates.
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