Desktop Management

interaksi saya dengan beberapa orang yang akrab dengan teknologi informasi kadang membuat saya bingung. yang biasanya dan sering terjadi adalah saya mendapatkan istilah-istilah baru yang belum pernah saya dengar. entah itu kaitannya dengan bahasa program, aplikasi, atau apapun itu.

alangkah baiknya jika istilah itu saya simpan juga di blog ini. Minimal hal yang baru saya dapatkan bisa saya endapkan untuk selanjutnya saya pelajari dan tidak hanya menjadi pendengar pasif.

Dan kurang lebih dua pekan lalu, oleh seorang senior di kantor pusat, saya diminta mempelajari mengenai Desktop Management. Makhluk apakah itu??

Ya, berikut pengantarnya yang saya ambil dari google tentunya :)

Desktop management is a comprehensive approach to managing all the computers within an organization. Despite its name, desktop management includes overseeing laptops and other computing devices as well as desktop computers. Desktop management is a component of systems management, which is the administration of all components of an organization's information systems. Other components of systems management include network management and database management.


Traditional desktop management tasks include installing and maintaining hardware and software, spam filtering, and administering user permissions. In recent years, however, security-related tasks have become an increasingly large part of desktop management. As a result, an increasingly large proportion of administrative resources have been devoted to security-related tasks, such as patch management, fighting viruses and spyware, and controlling greynet applications (programs installed without corporate approval, such as instant messaging, file sharing programs, and RSS readers).


Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is an industry framework for managing and keeping track of hardware and software components in a system of personal computers from a central location. DMI was created by the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) to automate system management and is particularly beneficial in a network computing environment where dozens or more computers are managed.

sumber: http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/definition/desktop-management

The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) generates a standard framework for managing and tracking components in a desktop, notebook or server computer, by abstracting these components from the software that manages them. The development of DMI marked the first move by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) into desktop-management standards.[1] Before the introduction of DMI, no standardized source of information could provide details about components in a personal computer.


Due to the rapid development of DMTF technologies, such as Common Information Model (CIM), the DMTF defined an "End of Life" process for DMI, which ended on March 31, 2005.

sumber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Management_Interface

Dan aplikasi yang berkaitan dengan Desktop Management, salah satunya adalah Desktop Central.

Desktop Central is a web-based windows server and desktop management software that helps in managing thousands of servers/desktops from a central location. It automates the complete desktop management life cycle ranging from a simple system configuration to complex software deployment. With its network-neutral architecture, the administrator can easily manage desktops in any windows networks like Active Directory, Workgroup, or other directory services.

 sumber: http://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/


Beberapa kutipan diatas, minimal membuka sedikit nalar saya tentang desktop management, yang bisa saya simpulkan bahwa desktop management adalah bagaimana kita bisa mengatur/maintenance PC client yang ada di kantor dengan desktop management. 


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