Manual installation of DCE agents

Before HPOM for Windows 8.00, management servers and agents communicated using DCE/RPC. HPOM 8.10 includes an agent that communicates using HTTPS. Although the DCE agent is currently still supported, you are encouraged to use the HTTPS agent for new nodes.

However, in some situations, you may want to install a DCE agent on a system. You can deploy DCE agents from the management server, or manually, without using the management server.

DCE agent installation packages are available, which you can copy or transfer to a system. You can then start the agent installation locally. The DCE agent packages are available on the management server in the folder %OvShareDir%Packages\. This folder contains subfolders for the supported operating systems and node architectures. You must copy the correct installation package for the node's operating system and architecture.

NOTE:
By default %OvShareDir% on the management server is \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\HP\HP BTO Software\shared\. An alternative path may have been configured during installation.

For up-to-date information on supported agent platforms, see the support matrix at HP Software Support Online.

The instructions for deploying DCE agents manually are provided in read-me files with the installation packages. You can copy these along with the package to the node for reference when performing the installation. The files are also available here:

• Read-me file for DCE agents on Windows
• Read-me file for DCE agents on HP-UX
• Read-me file for DCE agents on Linux
• Read-me file for DCE agents on OpenVMS
• Read-me file for DCE agents on Solaris
• Read-me file for DCE agents on Tru64

Related Topics:

• Manual installation of HTTPS agents
• Remote agent installation