Remote agent installation


You can install agents remotely when you create a new node. Alternatively, when you deploy a policy to a node, the management server checks that the correct agent packages exist on the node. If the agent packages are not already installed, or this policy requires an later version of the agent, the management server automatically deploys the latest agent packages on the node.

The management server can automatically deploy HTTPS and DCE agents to nodes that have a supported Windows operating system. In addition, if you configure a suitable secure shell client on the management server, it can also automatically deploy HTTPS agents to nodes that have a supported UNIX or Linux operating system.

If you are using HTTPS agents, you can specify default settings that you want the management server to apply when it automatically installs the agent on specific nodes.

If you do not want the management server to install agents automatically, you can disable this feature.

To automatically deploy agent packages, the management server creates a deployment job. Before the job starts, the management server requests the credentials of a user who has administrative access to the node.

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You can also start agent deployment by dragging the Operations-agent deployment package to a node or node group.

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