F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 7.0 -, Administrator'S Manual

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6.4.2 Adding Hosts
The main methods of adding hosts to your policy domain, depending on
your operating system, are as follows:
Import hosts directly from your Windows domain.
Import hosts through autoregistration (requires that F-Secure
Management Agent be installed on the imported hosts). You can
also use different criteria to import the autoregistered hosts into
different sub-domains.
Create hosts manually by using the New Host command.
Windows Domains
In a Windows domain, the most convenient method of adding hosts to
your policy domain is by importing them through F-Secure Intelligent
Installation by choosing ‘Autodiscover Windows hosts’ from the
Edit menu
in F-Secure Policy Manager Console. Note that this also installs F-Secure
Management Agent on the imported hosts. In order to import hosts from a
Windows domain, select the target domain, and choose ‘Autodiscover
Windows hosts’ from the
Edit menu. After the autodiscover operation is
completed, the new host is automatically added to the Policy Domain
tree. For more information, see “
Software Distribution ” , 115 .
Autoregistered Hosts
Another possibility for importing hosts into F-Secure Policy Manager
Console is by using the autoregistration feature. You can do this only after
F-Secure Management Agent has been installed on the hosts and after
the hosts have sent an autoregistration request. The F-Secure
Management Agent will have to be installed from a CD-ROM, from a login
script, or some other way. To import autoregistered hosts, click , or
choose Import Autoregistered Hosts from the Edit menu, or from the
Installation view. When the operation is completed, the host is added to
the domain tree. The autoregistered hosts can be imported to different
domains based on different criteria, such as the hosts’s IP or DNS
address. For more information, see “
Autoregistration Import Rules ” , 109 .