Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — Aduva, Inc. announced Aduva Manager and Aduva Director for installations using the SuSE Linux operating system. The technology used in both products automates management of both single and multi-system Linux installations. In addition to SuSE, the solutions also support Red Hat Linux. The products, Aduva Manager for single systems, and Aduva Director for multi-system networks, address the growing need for critical system management tasks such as upgrades, patches, and new hardware driver and software installations.

The central foundation of the Aduva solutions is the Aduva Knowledge Base. The Knowledge Base includes conflict and dependency information on hardware driver, software, and kernel module components for Linux systems. The Knowledge Base continually grows and is updated based on new products, upgrades, patches, security notices and other developments in the Linux community. The Aduva Director software is installed on the system's central administration server. A local software client is also installed on each individual system in the network. The local software client maintains an up-to-date inventory and profile of all hardware, software and kernel module components and makes this information available to the system administrator. No user information is sent to Aduva, so the solution is totally secure. The Aduva Manager software is installed on the individual system alone, but utilizes the same Knowledge Base and is also completely protected.

 
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