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Paragent released as open-source software

Paragent, LLC has announced the first open-source release of its Paragent cross-platform desktop management software. "Paragent is a web-based tool for IT administrators that provides a unified service for hardware and software inventory, alerting, remote desktop and help desk. Paragent delivers these tools in an easy-to-use interface, with one-click access, and site-wide built-in advanced search capabilities. Paragent is a combination of applications, including Lisp-based servers collecting data, C++ agents on the client machines, and Java tools for the remote desktop component."
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Paragent released as open-source software

Posted Nov 3, 2007 6:20 UTC (Sat) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

It seems its agent only works on Windows hosts. And it seems it sends the collected info to
the external server out of sysadmin's control. And sysadmin has to ask for account on that
external server to do anything. Of what use is such "open source" software, I don't know.

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