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ePolicy Orchestrator
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3.6 Walkthrough Guide
Installing and setting up
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While dragging systems into groups, ignore the
IP Integrity warning
message if you see it
by clicking
OK
.
To create additional groups and subgroups as needed:
Repeat all these steps to create a server group for your site, as well as additional server
and workstation groups for other sites, if you have them. You can also make groups
within groups. For example, the test network shown in this guide has systems running
both Windows 2000 and Windows 98. Due to limitations with older versions of
Windows, we need to set different policies for systems running Windows 98. Creating
Win98
and
Win2K
subgroups within our Workstation group makes setting these
different policies easier.
Now your test Directory is finished. You have created sites and added systems, either
manually or by importing existing NT domains on your network. And you have
separated the systems in each site into separate groups for servers and different types
of workstation operating systems. You’re ready for the next step—deploying agents.
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Deploy agents to the systems in your Directory
Before you can manage the client systems in your Directory, you must install an ePolicy
Orchestrator agent on each client system. The agent is a small application that resides
on the client system and periodically checks in with the ePolicy Orchestrator server for
updates and new instructions.
Deploying the agent from the ePolicy Orchestrator server requires the following:
A network account with administrator privileges
. You must specify administrator
credentials when you deploy agents.
Domain trusts to other NT domains, if necessary
. To deploy agents outside the
local NT domain that hosts your ePolicy Orchestrator server, you must have a
domain trust relationship configured between the local and target domains.
For Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, install extra Microsoft updates
.
Windows 95 and Windows 98 first edition require that you install additional
Microsoft updates to be able to run the ePolicy Orchestrator agent. See the
ePolicy
Orchestrator 3.6 Installation Guide
for information on finding and installing these
updates. You must install these updates to run the agent on these systems at all,
even if you do not use ePolicy Orchestrator to deploy it.
For Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, turn on file and print sharing.
Enable file and print sharing on each client to which you plan to deploy the agent.
Note that this is only a requirement to deploy the agent from the ePolicy
Orchestrator server, not to manage policies. Once you have deployed the agent to
a Windows 95 or Windows 98 system, you can disable file and print sharing.
For Windows 95 and Windows 98 systems, agent installation completes at
next logon.
After deploying the agent installation package to systems running these
operating systems, the installation does not complete until the next time the system
logs on to the network.
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