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Introduction to RES ONE Automation 2015

Introduction to RES ONE Automation 2015 This document describes what RES ONE Automation does and how it works. After reading Introduction to RES ONE Automation 2015, you will have a clear understanding of what you can achieve with this product.RES ONE Automation increases IT productivity and efficiency by dividing and reducing the workload across all IT skill sets.

Increase Operational Efficiency With RES ONE Automation, you can streamline complex operations and help free IT staff for strategic projects. You can increase productivity with extensive out-of-the-box knowledge while minimizing ad-hoc, unsecure and complex scripting and provide a central point of automation.

Improve Compliance and Security With RES ONE Automation, you can control who can make changes to the IT environment with real-time audit capabilities and provide better governance. Patented trust security enables enterprises to automate with increased security and efficiency.

Gain Greater Strategic Value RES ONE Automation saves costs by enabling quicker and more accurate deployments while leveraging existing technology investments. It eliminates single point of dependencies and empower anyone to manage anything from simple to complex change requests, with the control required by the expert.

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Task Automation Task Automation is all about automating recurring IT tasks on servers and desktops. RES ONE Automation provides many pre-defined tasks that eliminate complex scripts. With a few clicks, these tasks can be scheduled in many ways on individual computers (Agents) or on groups of computers (Teams). Information about all Jobs and administrator activities is automatically gathered in the central Datastore.

When configuring Tasks, the first step is to create a Module. A Module is a container for one or more Tasks that you can execute on Agents and Teams. Modules hold information about the way in which these Tasks should be executed. The ability to use a series of Tasks in a Module is very useful if one Task is directly related to the other one, for example because it represents a specific activity or individual technical task. Modules can be combined into Projects. A Project is ideal for combinations of Modules that you need to perform often. By combining several Modules into one Project, the Modules in the Project can be scheduled as one Job instead of as a series of separate Jobs. With Parameters and Variables, you can make Modules and Projects generic and therefore very powerful. Parameters and Variables function as placeholders for customer-specific values, such as server names, passwords and credentials. Generic Modules and Projects allow IT professionals to create independent activity libraries that can be used in different environments. With Building Blocks, you can export configuration. Building Blocks can be imported into any RES ONE Automation environment. This is ideal for testing, acceptance, and production environments.

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Resource Provisioning With Resource Provisioning, you can link together multiple pre-defined tasks into lists called Run Books that provision resources within your organization. Because provisioning tasks are rarely performed on a single computer, Run Books are very useful in complex maintenance tasks that involve different computers, such as Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers, SQL database servers, VMware servers and Microsoft Exchange servers. For example, with a single Run Book you can set up a computer for a newly hired employee, back up an ERP server, or reboot all servers in a Citrix server farm sequentially.

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Pre-defined Task Overview The following Tasks are available for IT professionals to configure and use – without the need for scripting:

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Technology RES ONE Automation requires only a few components for operation. A central RES ONE Automation Console is used for setup, configuration and activities. All configurations are stored in a central Datastore. The Dispatcher takes care of communication between the Datastore and Agents. Depending on your network topology, multiple Dispatchers can be deployed to handle the load.

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Where to go from here? To find out if RES ONE Automation is right for your organization please visit http://www.ressoftware.com or contact: RES Software USA Radnor Financial Center, 150 North Radnor Chester Road, Suite D100 Radnor, PA 19087, USA +1 800-893-7810

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If you are planning to set up a sandbox environment to test RES ONE Automation 2015, we recommend reading Getting started with RES ONE Automation 2015.

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