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ePolicy Orchestrator
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3.6 Walkthrough Guide
Installing and setting up
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Other typical methods of grouping include, but are not limited to:
Geographical divisions.
If you have locations in various portions of the world, or in
multiple time zones, you may want to divide your ePolicy Orchestrator Directory
according to those divisions. Some of your policy or task coordination is much easier
across multiple time zones if you place these systems in such sites.
Security divisions.
If users have various levels of security access in your
environment, creating your Directory structure to mirror those levels may make
enforcing policy much easier.
1
Add systems to your Directory
The first step in creating your Directory is to add systems from your network. Try one
of these three methods:
Option A: Automatically add entire existing NT domains to your Directory
. Very easy
and fast. Useful if you plan to deploy agents to every system in that domain. Use
this method if you organized your test client systems into domains in your lab
network, as in the examples in this guide.
Option B: Automatically add entire Active Directory containers to your Directory
.
Very easy and fast. Useful if all or part of your environment is controlled by Active
Directory and if you want portions of your ePolicy Orchestrator Directory to mirror
portions of your Active Directory.
Option C: Manually add individual systems to your Directory
. While this may be too
slow when deploying ePolicy Orchestrator in a live network, it is fast enough for
adding a handful of systems in your test network.
Option A: Automatically add entire existing NT domains to
your Directory
ePolicy Orchestrator allows you to import all systems in an NT domain into your
Directory
with just a few clicks. Use this feature if you organized your test client systems into
domains in your lab network.
The examples in this guide use this method to create
Directory
sites from an NT domain
on the test network,
Domain1
.
To add entire NT domains to your
Directory
:
1
Right-click the
Directory
and select
New
|
Site
.
2
In the
Add Sites
dialog box, click
Add
.
3
In the
New Site
dialog box, type a name for the site. Make sure the name you type
matches exactly the name of your NT domain.
4
Under
Type
, select
Domain
and
Include computers as child nodes
.
5
Click
Add
under
IP Management
to specify an IP address range for the site.
6
In the
IP Management
dialog box, type an IP subnet mask or IP range to specify the IP
address ranges of systems that belong to this site.
7
Click
OK
to save the IP settings.
8
Click
OK
to save the new site and close the
New Site
dialog box.
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