The LANDesk Cloud Services Appliance (formerly called the LANDesk Gateway Appliance) is a hardware appliance installed the TAB Data Center that allows clients off campus to communicate back to the LANDesk Core Server without using VPN.
- up to 4,000 active connections simultaneously
- Performs on-demand remote control
- Monitors software licenses
- Accesses policy-based software distribution
- Performs patch management
- Executes anti-spyware management
- Carries out antivirus enforcement and management
- Manages security threats
- Blocks applications
- Enables bidirectional management traffic for:
- Inventory and software license monitoring
- Software distribution and application policy
- Vulnerability detection
- Configuration security maintenance and patch management
