Automatic Client Deployment: Overview
Automatic Client Deployment allows Vector AM to search your network for Windows NT, 2000, XP Professional, 2003 and Vista systems where the Client is not installed, and to automatically deploy the Client or perform one-shot audits. It can also be used to automatically update existing Clients with new versions of the Client.
To deploy the Client automatically:
1 Select the Configure Automatic Client Deployment operation in the Console's Client Deployment & Maintenance folder.
2 Select Enable Automatic Client Deployment in the Automatic Client Deployment dialog.
3 Enter the following information:
One
or more profiles that specify the installation
kit and settings you want Vector AM to use, plus one or more filters
to identify the PCs that each profile applies to.
Any
PCs that you want to exclude from automatic
deployment.
If the account and password combination specified as the Vector Administrator Account is not valid for all nodes on your network, you must exclude the nodes on which the account will not work. When the administrator account has different passwords in different parts of your network, repeated network connection failures can cause the account to be locked out.
A
deployment schedule that controls when and
how often Vector AM searches your network for eligible PCs.
4 Close the dialog. Vector AM generates a job on the Host specified in the Schedule tab.
Each time Automatic Client Deployment runs, it generates a list of nodes that are eligible to install the Client by scanning the domains, organizational units and IP addresses specified in the inclusion filters and removing any nodes where an up-to-date version of the Client is installed, where a Client deployment is in progress or which are specified in the Exclusions tab. Vector AM then deploys the Client kit to the remaining nodes.
Related Topics
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