Welcome to Shavlik NetChk® Protect , a unified IT management platform used for managing and protecting Microsoft-based machines. NetChk Protect provides you with one centralized and common interface that you can use to perform several essential IT management functions.
Shavlik Technologies' industry-leading patch management function provides the ability to scan all Microsoft-based machines in your network and assess the current patch status of those machines. After a scan is performed you can generate reports that provide additional details about the patch "health" of each machine. NetChk Protect can then be used to easily and automatically bring each machine up-to-date. You simply instruct the program to download and deploy the desired patches to the machines of your choosing. You can even dictate when the deployment will occur and if and when each machine should be restarted. In addition, NetChk Protect can provide e-mail alerts that notify you when patches are available and it can e-mail the results of scans and other information you wish to share with selected users.
The patch management function can be performed with or without agents. This unique blending of agentless and agent-based technologies gives you maximum flexibility while minimizing management overhead.
The asset management function enables you to track your software, hardware, and virtual assets. The function works with both physical and virtual machines. You can perform scans to detect and categorize the software and hardware contained on your physical and online virtual machines. You can scan for the properties of your online and offline virtual machines. Detailed information about your software, hardware, and virtual assets is available immediately following a scan. You also have the ability to create reports that can be used to track your asset inventory over time.
Like the patch management function, the asset management function can be performed with or without agents.
Note: Threat management (antivirus & antispyware) is a separately licensable function. Contact your sales representative or sales@shavlik.com to add this function to your Shavlik NetChk Protect license.
The threat management function combines antivirus and antispyware into a single engine, enabling you to scan for and eliminate various threats that may exist on your Microsoft-based network machines. It gives you powerful protection against today's abundant and highly complex threats. It uses minimal system resources and will not significantly impair the performance of your machines. It is designed to run seamlessly and unobtrusively, keeping notification pop-ups and warnings to a minimum.
The threat management function provides two forms of threat protection:
Active Protection: A real-time service that runs on agent machines and monitors for changes to specific security configuration settings and values that are frequently modified by malware programs. If it detects a change it responds immediately by changing the setting back to the original value, protecting the machine from the effects of the malware.
Scheduled Protection: A scheduled service that runs periodically on agent machines. It performs scans and threat remediations using options defined by you, the administrator. Scheduled protection enables you to automatically perform scans and remove detected threats (viruses, spyware, etc.) as often as once per hour.
The threat management function operates in an agent-based mode using the Shavlik NetPt Agent feature. This enables you to get both patch management and antivirus protection in a single agent.
Note: Power management is a separately licensable function. Contact your sales representative or sales@shavlik.com to add this function to your Shavlik NetChk Protect license.
The power management function enables you to control the power state of the machines in your organization. The primary reasons for using power management are to:
Prepare your machines for maintenance tasks
Reduce noise and power consumption
Reduce operating costs
Prolong battery life
You can shut down, restart, or awaken machines either immediately or on a scheduled basis. When you perform a scheduled restart you also have the ability to specify what power state to put the machines in: fully powered on, in sleep mode, or in hibernate mode. The power management function can be performed with or without agents. For more details see Power Management Overview .
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Help file version info: NetChk Protect 7.8, March 2011