If you have DCE agents installed on nodes in your environment, you can migrate to the HTTPS agent. For example, you may need to deploy a new policy that requires the HTTPS agent.
When you migrate a node from the DCE agent to the HTTPS agent, the management server removes all existing policies, instrumentation and packages from that node. After it deploys the HTTPS agent packages, it then redeploys the policies, and the packages and instrumentation that the policies require. If the node's policy inventory contains policies that are not available on the management server, the management server cannot redeploy these policies to the HTTPS agent. This can happen, for example, if the policy exists only on a different management server, or if the policy exists on the node but has been deleted from the management server.
When you migrate a DCE agent to an HTTPS agent, the installer migrates the following data:
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The installer migrates the settings to the eaagt
namespace on the HTTPS agent.agtrep
namespace on the HTTPS agent.OPC_COMM_PORT_RANGE, OPC_RESTRICT_TO_PROCS, OPC_TRACE, OPC_TRACE_AREA, OPC_TRC_PROCS, OPC_DBG_AREA, OPC_DBG_PROCS, OPC_NODE_TYPE, OPC_IP_ADDRESS, OPC_NSP_TYPE, OPC_NSP_VERSION, OPC_BUFLIMIT_SIZE, OPC_BUFLIMIT_SEVERITY, OPC_AGENT_LOG_SIZE, OPC_AGENT_LOG_DIR, OPC_HBP_INTERVAL_ON_AGENT, OPC_COMM_TYPE, OPC_NODE_CHARSET, OPC_MGMTSV_CHARSET, OPC_AGTMSI_ENABLE, OPC_AGTMSI_ALLOW_OA, OPC_AGTMSI_ALLOW_AA, OPC_BUFLIMIT_ENABLE, OPC_SG, OPC_SC, OPC_VC, OPC_INSTALLED_VERSION, COMM_INSTALLED_VERSION, PERF_INSTALLED_VERSION, OPC_MGMT_SERVER, OPC_INSTALLATION_TIME
Optional. Select the Auto Grant check box if you want the management server to automatically grant the certificate for this node. (This only happens if you also configure the management server to grant certificate requests automatically.)
PMAD user. The management server attempts to deploy the agent as the user under which the policy management and deployment (PMAD) service runs (called HP-OVE-Deleg-User by default).
You can only use this for nodes with a Windows operating system. The nodes can belong to the same domain as the management server, a trusted domain, or a workgroup.
NOTE:
The PMAD user does not by default have administrative access to the
node. For more information, see
Start Windows node security setup.
Impersonate user. The management server attempts to deploy the agent using the credentials that you are currently logged in to Windows with.
You cannot use impersonation for nodes in untrusted domains or workgroups.
You can use impersonation only if the PMAD user is trusted for delegation in Active Directory, unless your console runs directly on the management server. For more details on delegation, refer to the Active Directory documentation that Microsoft provides.
User/Password. The Credentials dialog box appears. Type the Username of a user who has permission to install software on the node and their Password. Click OK. This automatically selects the Deploy check box.
For nodes with a UNIX or Linux operating system, this is the only command available. You can also use this command to install the HTTPS agent to Windows nodes that belong to the same domain as the management server, a trusted domain, or a workgroup.
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