Nothing on this page is exotic. It is the unglamorous work of knowing which machines exist, keeping them patched, filtering what they can reach, and noticing when one stops phoning home. Skipping it is how companies end up defending hardware they had forgotten they owned.
Ask a small company how many laptops it owns and you tend to get a number that is confidently wrong. Machines get bought outside the process, people leave and take hardware with them, and a spare comes out of a drawer for a new starter. An agent on every device turns that guess into a list, and the list is the thing every other control depends on.
After inventory comes patching, and patching is mostly about the third party software nobody tracks. Operating system updates get attention. The PDF reader, the browser, the compression tool and the conferencing client are the ones sitting three versions behind, and they are also the ones being used all day.
Managing Macs with tooling designed for Windows produces a fleet that is technically managed and practically ignored. Addigy is built for Apple, so profiles, updates and enrollment behave the way Apple intended rather than looking like a feature bolted onto something else.
Phones matter for one blunt reason: they read the mail. A handset carrying the same mailbox as the laptop deserves the same attention, and Zimperium delivers that on the handset itself, with nobody's traffic taking a detour first.
Every rate below arrives live from billing. Anything you pick up drops into the inventory panel and sits there quietly.
The base layer under a managed fleet. Hardware and software inventory, patching of the operating system and the usual third party software, scripted fixes, and remote sessions when somebody needs helping.
| Engine | N-able N-sight |
|---|---|
| Boxes | Windows, macOS and Linux |
| Bundled in | Inventory, monitoring, patching, scripting, remote access |
| Shouts about | Disk, service and check failures raised to our desk |
| Counted by | Managed device, each month |
Name resolution and web filtering handled by the agent already sitting there, so a machine stays covered in the office, at a kitchen table, or in an airport lounge, with nothing to rack and nothing to reroute.
| Engine | N-able N-sight filtering |
|---|---|
| Needs | The monitoring line on the same device |
| Where it works | Applies wherever the device happens to be connected |
| Rules | Category and destination rules per group |
| Counted by | Managed device, each month |
Proper management for Macs, iPads and iPhones enrolled the way Apple intends, including configuration profiles, update enforcement, and wiping something that has gone missing.
| Engine | Addigy |
|---|---|
| Boxes | macOS, iOS and iPadOS |
| Getting them on | Automated for eligible hardware, manual for the rest |
| Levers | Profiles, updates, deployment, lock and wipe |
| Counted by | Apple device, each month |
Threat detection on the phone, for the fleet of devices that read your mail on a train. Analysis happens on the device, so a handset stays protected without funnelling its traffic through somebody else first.
| Engine | Zimperium |
|---|---|
| Boxes | iOS and Android |
| Thinking happens | Local to the handset, with no traffic sent elsewhere |
| Spots | Malicious apps, jailbreak and root, hostile networks |
| Counted by | Mobile device, each month |
Fleet management is where a managed service earns its keep quietly. It is also where expectations drift, so here is the boundary.
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