If you have the correct permissions and network access to remote nodes, you can install agents onto the nodes from the console. To remotely install agents, the management server requires the credentials of a user who has administrative access to the node. The following table shows the specific permissions required, according to the node's operating system, and the type of agent.
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Remote agent installation is supported from management servers that belong to an Active Directory domain. If your management server is in a Windows workgroup environment, install agents manually instead.
Optional. For up-to-date information on supported agent platforms, see the support matrix at HP Software Support Online.
Open the Agent installation dialog box if it is not already open.
You can open the Agent installation dialog box in the following ways:
Optional. In the list of nodes, select or clear the Deploy check box to indicate the nodes that you want to install the agent on.
If you select the Deploy check box for nodes that have a UNIX or Linux operating system, the Credentials dialog box appears. Type the Username of a user who has permission to install software on the node. Type the password in Password and Repeat Password.
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. If you are installing a DCE agent to a Windows node, this is the only command available.
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. The user must have permission to log on as a service. (You can assign this permission in the local Windows security settings on the node, or a group policy object in Active Directory.)
For Windows nodes specify the username in one of the following formats:
domain\user (for an Active Directory user)
computer_name\user (for a local user on the node)
NOTE:
The management server does not create a deployment job if the agent
package is already in the node's package inventory. If a node's
package inventory contains the agent package, but you are sure that
the agent is not actually installed on a node, you can force the
management server to remove the agent package from the inventory in
the Uninstall package from... dialog. For more information, see
Remove
package from node.
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