Deployment and Inventory Progress

When you click Finish in the last dialog of the Site Creation Wizard, Vector AM creates an offline area and Site database. It then displays the Deployment and Inventory Progress dialog, so you can follow the progress of the Client deployment to each of the nodes you selected in the Select Clients dialog.

When a Client deployment is complete, the Current action field displays the message Click here to view Inventory Report. You can then view a summary of the Client hardware by clicking this entry, or you can view more detailed information by right-clicking its entry in a group in the Console's Clients folder, or by using the various Reports. You can also start to work with the Client by clicking an Operation.

If a deployment fails, check:

    The target node is running Windows NT, 2000, XP Professional, 2003 or Vista. Vector AM deployment is only supported on Windows NT-type systems. See Deploying the Client to Windows 95, 98, Me, and XP Home systems for information on deploying to other Windows systems. Refer to the User manual for information on deploying the Client to Macintosh systems.

    The Client software has installed. If the Client is installed but has not produced an inventory for the computer where it is installed, reboot the computer to initialize the Client.

    The Vector Administrator Account is a valid account with Administrator privileges for the target node.

    The target node is still accessible on your network.

    The target node can connect to the Client kit in the offline area created by the Site Creation Wizard.

    The local security policy of the target node is not restricted to Guest only connections (Windows XP only).

    The password of the deployment account is blank when the target node has a local security policy which prevents the use of blank passwords (Windows XP only).

    A Firewall is not preventing File and Printer Sharing on the target node.

You can view the log files for the deployments and restart deployments using the Deploy Clients Interactively operation in the Console's Client Deployment & Maintenance folder.